Looking Back: Olney History Series
Wed, 01/05/2022 - 6:00pm
A Journey Through Time | The Cotton Gin
By:
Will Sadler | Photojournalist
Welcome back friends of Olney History.
The year was 1898 and Olney continued to push into the future with the first cotton gin being built by J.K Thomas, who moved to Olney from Bowie, Texas. The gin was a toll gin taking every 14th pound of cotton as pay.