Gasoline Cotton Gin
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member QuarrellaDeVil
N 34° 20.574 W 101° 00.852
14S E 314729 N 3802014
Texas Historical Marker at the site of an old gasoline-powered cotton gin that provided the name for the settlement that existed here briefly before the railroad bypassed it. Located on the north side of FM 599, off of FM 86, southeast of Quitaque.
Waymark Code: WMPQNQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
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Marker Number: 2110

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Cotton farmers began settling in this area in 1903. A water well was dug in 1906. Attracting more farmers and increasing crop production. Because the nearest cotton gin was ten miles away in Turkey, three partners (M.E. Tomson, J.H. Clack, and L.A. McCracken) bought a gasoline-powered engine and built a gin at this site. The first bale of cotton was ginned in April 1907. The presence of the gin led to the development of a town named Gasoline. The town declined after the railroad bypassed it in 1927 and the gin was destroyed in a 1938 fire. (1990)
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