First Cotton Bale of 1971 Ginned
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin
Newspaper clipping announcing the first bale of cotton ginned in Acadia Parish in 1971 by Curry Lejeune.
This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin
Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin – Supplying rural farmers with the means to gin their cotton from the 1930s until the 1970s.
Sometime in the early 1880s, the first cotton gin in Church Point was built by Valentin Breaux and in 1890, his competitor Homer Barrouse opened another. The ginning business was dominated by Joseph Ernest Daigle, who opened multiple gins…