A Union County mother said her Porter Ridge Middle School student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the ...

The invention of the cotton engine (also known as the cotton gin) by Eli Whitney is perhaps one of the most tangible outcomes of the American industrialization spirit of the 18th century 1.

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

Officials said a Hartsville man pled guilty this week to charges that included him setting fire to cotton bales.

This tribute honors John Edmonston, a community leader who took over his family's cotton gin at 21, shaping its legacy with ...

Whitney was i partnership with one Durkee, and set up hi first cotton gin there. The gin-house wa grated so that visitors might see the cotto ginned from the outside. None but female were allowed ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Yemeni media outlets reported that the new US airstrikes targeted Al-Asayed area in Al-Safra district in Sa’ada governorate ...

NCSHP responded to a single-vehicle crash on NC-37 near Cotton Gin Road in Gates County Tuesday morning. The vehicle was ...