When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: cotton gin lodging in fredericksburg
    • Sleeps 4+

      Book Roomy Rentals that Sleep 4+.

      More Space and Privacy for Less!

    • Sleeps 2+

      Planning the Perfect Getaway for 2?

      Search Top Rentals on Vrbo®

    • Pets Welcome

      Need Space for your Furry Friend?

      Search and Book Pet Friendly Homes!

    • Group Rentals 7+

      Book Large Group Accommodations

      Perfect for Reunions & Reconnecting

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Robert S. Munger - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Munger

    Entrepreneur. Robert Sylvester Munger (July 24, 1854 – April 20, 1923) and his wife Mary Collett Munger (1857–1924) invented the "system cotton gin". After that achievement, Munger started and ran some of the largest gin manufacturing companies in the United States. He also developed real estate in Dallas, Texas.

  3. A. Smith Bowman Distillery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Smith_Bowman_Distillery

    Designated VLR. September 15, 1999 [2] The A. Smith Bowman Distillery is a distillery that was originally based on the Bowman family's 7,200-acre Sunset Hills Farm in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, in what later became the planned community of Reston. The distillery was founded in 1934 on the day after the end of Prohibition, by Abram ...

  4. Smithfield Plantation (Fredericksburg, Virginia) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Plantation...

    Fredericksburg Country Club. /  38.26472°N 77.42694°W  / 38.26472; -77.42694. Smithfield Plantation, now known as Fredericksburg Country Club, is a historic former plantation house and estate in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, four miles south of the city of Fredericksburg. It has been a private country club since 1925.

  5. Eli Whitney - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Whitney

    Cotton exports from the U.S. boomed after the cotton gin's appearance – from less than 500,000 pounds (230,000 kg) in 1793 to 93 million pounds (42,000,000 kg) by 1810. [12] Cotton was a staple that could be stored for long periods and shipped long distances, unlike most agricultural products.

  6. Cotton gin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin

    A cotton gin —meaning "cotton engine " [ 1 ][ 2 ] —is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. [ 3 ] The separated seeds may be used to grow more cotton or to produce cottonseed oil. Handheld roller gins had been used in the Indian ...

  7. Mulberry Grove Plantation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_Grove_Plantation

    Mulberry Grove Plantation. Mulberry Grove Plantation, located north of Port Wentworth, Chatham County, Savannah, was a rice plantation, notable as the location where Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. [2] Once a thriving plantation, comprising, in 1798, some. ... 500 acres of river swamp, under good dams and well drained; and 200 acres of ...

  1. Ad

    related to: cotton gin lodging in fredericksburg