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General View, Cotton Press, Looking Northeast
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Cotton Press, Looking East
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Detail, Cotton Press, Looking Northeast
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Detail, Cotton Press, Looking Northeast, With Scale
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Detail, Cotton Press, Looking West
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Item Title
Locationmoved from Berry's Crossroad,
Latta vicinity, SC
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER SC-11
Building/structure dates:
1798 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1950
Significance: Significant in the field of rural industry as the only known remaining cotton press of this era in South Carolina; the primary machine which pressed and baled ginned cotton.
Subjects
AgricultureMoving Of StructuresPresses
Related Names
Boucher, Jack, Photographer
Pittenger, Nancy, Historian
Power, J. Tracy, Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW, COTTON PRESS, LOOKING NORTHEAST
2. COTTON PRESS, LOOKING EAST
3. DETAIL, COTTON PRESS, LOOKING NORTHEAST
4. DETAIL, COTTON PRESS, LOOKING NORTHEAST, WITH SCALE
5. DETAIL, COTTON PRESS, LOOKING WEST
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