MSRelic
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Found this on our place in Mississippi today.
One of the earliest of the cotton gin manufacturers was Eleazer Carver of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. While traveling in the South in 1806 he made the acquaintance of some very important planters in the Natchez area of the Mississippi River Valley, where upland cotton had been grown commercially about as early as in Georgia and South Carolina. For six years Carver made gin stands for the Mississippi planters before the War of 1812 closed his shop. Carver decided in 1816 to return to New England to establish there the Bridgewater Cotton Gin Company, popularly known for more than fifty years as the Carver Cotton Gin Company. In 1816 and subsequent years Carver built on South Brook, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, an extensive establishment run by water power, where he continued to make gins throughout the ante-bellum period.
One of the earliest of the cotton gin manufacturers was Eleazer Carver of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. While traveling in the South in 1806 he made the acquaintance of some very important planters in the Natchez area of the Mississippi River Valley, where upland cotton had been grown commercially about as early as in Georgia and South Carolina. For six years Carver made gin stands for the Mississippi planters before the War of 1812 closed his shop. Carver decided in 1816 to return to New England to establish there the Bridgewater Cotton Gin Company, popularly known for more than fifty years as the Carver Cotton Gin Company. In 1816 and subsequent years Carver built on South Brook, in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, an extensive establishment run by water power, where he continued to make gins throughout the ante-bellum period.
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