Dykes Creek Cotton Gin

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The Dykes Creek Cotton Gin, pictured circa 1890, was located on Kingston Road in Rome. In the decades after the Civil War, cotton farmers brought their cotton to a community gin, rather than installing cotton gins on their own property.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #flo136.

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Dykes Creek Cotton Gin

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