- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- Site of Whitney Cotton Gin, near Augusta, Ga.
- Creator:
- Raphael Tuck & Sons
- Publisher:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives; Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Historic sites--Georgia--Augusta
Cotton trade--Georgia--Augusta
Cotton gins and ginning--Georgia--Augusta
Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825--Homes and haunts - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- On Rocky Creek, a few miles from Augusta, is the place where, in 1796, Eli Whitney erected and put into operation the first cotton gin. At that time but a small quantity of cotton was grown, and all of it had to be seeded by hand, a very slow process, so that the invention of the gin was a wonderful boom to the cotton industry. The club house of the Eli Whitney Country Club is now erected on the site.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/770
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
