Krebs Cotton Gin - Pascagoula, MS
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N 30° 22.810 W 088° 33.476
16R E 350307 N 3361941
Marker located at Old Spanish Fort at the end of Fort St. describes an early invention of a cotton gin, a machine for separating cotton from its seeds, long before the known inventor Eli Whitney.
Waymark Code: WMVBM8
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2017
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The Old Spanish Fort, located on Krebs Lake in Pascagoula, though never really a fort, is said to be the oldest Spanish Colonial structure in existence on the entire U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Its proper designation is the LaPointe-Krebs House.
Marker text:
Invented and operated by members of pioneer Krebs family at least two decades before the Whitney gin. Family burial ground is on site of Old Spanish Fort.
Date Installed:: 1958
Organization that placed the object:: The Mississippi Historical Commission.
Related Website:: [Web Link]
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