Spinning Wheel

ID: 1708 ~ Source: In memory of Amelia Greenwald by Leiselotte Weil to the Eunice Train Depot Museum ~ Creator: Author ~ Date: February 21, 2024

This file appears in: Grit and Tin: Cajun Sharecroppers and the Prairie Hayes Cotton Gin

Spinning wheel used by women to make cotton thread

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.

By Kallie R. Johnston

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…