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Work Barn & Small Corn Crib | Historic Brattonsville
Work Barn & Small Corn Crib | Historic Brattonsville
Episode 14

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Left : Work Barn Right: Small Corn Crib for storing corn. After harvesting the corn, it would be left in the crib to dry with the shucks still on. After it dried out and the shucks were removed, it...
Cotton | Historic Brattonsville
Cotton | Historic Brattonsville

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Cotton was a very important cash crop for families like the Brattons, who not only raised grain crops like wheat, oats and corn, but also raised cotton, which gave them the economic capital to...
Cotton Gin | Historic Brattonsville
Cotton Gin | Historic Brattonsville

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A cotton gin was used to clean the cotton, removing the seeds and stems Did you know that the word "gin," as in cotton gin, was an abbreviation for the word "engine"?