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

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

This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

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Increasing import of raw and waste cotton in the last seven months has brought to fore the urgent need for measures to improve cotton productivity in India. Also Read:Allocation for cotton in ...

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 ...

NewsChannel 13 has learned that the will of the late John Hendrickson directs the state to sell Whitney Park on his behalf and give the proceeds to Long Lake. Before Hendrickson passed away ...

Long Lake’s financial picture blossomed unexpectedly this winter as the historic lumber town found out it is designated as the sole beneficiary of all proceeds of the sale of John Hendrickson and ...

Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would revolutionize cotton production and create less of a need for ...

In recent years, whiteflies and pink bollworms have wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in North India. Cotton yields are down, as is the area under cotton cultivation — the crop was cultivated in only ...