The Louisiana State Cotton Museum being located here in the Lake Providence will make you enjoy the Louisiana’s major agricultural crops. You might be interested to know that the its prime gallery having interpretive exhibits, comprising of the life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, a re-created juke joint, etc.
The original ginning machinery, along with its vibrant yellow and red colors, will also enthuse you.
You will love the Louisiana State Cotton Museum being located in the Lake Providence rendering a nice place of Louisiana’s major agricultural crops.
You cannot afford to miss its gallery having the extensive set of interpretive exhibits, like the life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, a re-created juke joint and more, all packed into a replica gin house (where cotton fiber was ginned, or separated from the seed).
Cotton! White ones! 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.
You will love to explore here in the 30-acre museum complex;
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.
Louisiana Cotton Museum, Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
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.cotton.stalk.jpg (228561 bytes)
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: 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
You can also see here on the grounds of the museum being erected with a lot of impressive array of old plantation buildings like the sharecropper’s cabin and a small chapel, giving a true picture of the life in the rural world and its changes.
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