Within a year he had produced a model for the cotton gin.
He was also the inventor of an early cotton gin.
In 1917 English had a general store and a cotton gin.
But the cotton gin helped it spread throughout the South.
In 1900 the community had a reported population of just over 160 and several business, including a large cotton gin.
After the railroad was established, the town put up a cotton gin and started a land office business.
Until about the mid-1970s, it was the center of a farming community and had its own cotton gin.
The old cotton gin continued to operate into the 1990s.
A store and a cotton gin were built in 1931, which became the nucleus of the community.
And that cotton gin where you occasionally find the time to put in a few hours a week?
