Louisiana State Cotton Museum

Cotton!  White gold!  From field to factory, cotton historically employed more Americans than any other industry.  Cotton has impacted world trade, technological development, the American Expansion, African-American history, the Civil War, and the Great Depression.

This 30-acre museum complex has: a 100+ year-old Planter's House original to the site,  an original sharecropper's cabin commissary plantation church replicated gin building and  exhibit hall.

You can also operate a music mixing-board, listen to the blues on an old-time jukebox, and watch an orientation video.  Exhibits detailing how cotton was historically planted, grown, picked, ginned and manufactured, and how cotton has played a pivotal role in American culture.  Displays of operations of a typical cotton plantation with cotton for the major cash crop. 

The historic Homer Cotton Gin, Louisiana's first electric powered cotton gin, is housed at the Cotton Museum, also.

The exhibit hall is used for local events and can be reserved by contacting 318-559-2041.

The Museum has activities for children at Christmas and Easter, and a conference center will be built.   

Hours:   April-October: 9 to 4:30
                November-March: 9 to 4
Cost:  FREE 
Telephone:  318-559-2041 
Website: http://sos.louisiana.gov/museums/cotton/cotton-index.htm  
Tours:  Yes! Please call 318-559-2041 for groups of 15 or more.
Address:  7162 Highway 65 North, Lake Providence, Louisiana 71254  
Email:  cotton@sos.louisiana.gov 
Three miles north of Lake Providence on US Hwy 65
Parish:  East Carroll

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