Burton’s Famous Cotton Gin

“We’re preserving the stories that happened all over Texas and the world really,” says Stephanie Jarvis of Burton, population 300 near Brenham. She curates the Cotton Gin Gin Museum, one of the small town’s major attractions. “It is and was the Burton Farmers Gin and it is the oldest operating cotton gin operating in the US. It is 111 years old this year. It still runs. We operate it ...

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