Cotton Weighing

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Bales of cotton are weighed, circa 1904, in Commerce, one of several incorporated cities in Jackson County. Because the town was an important center for the cotton market early in the twentieth century, residents changed its name from Harmony Grove to Commerce in 1904.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Cotton Weighing

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