Cotton Gin Bell - Montgomery, AL
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xptwo
N 32° 22.975 W 086° 18.193
16S E 565540 N 3583093
This bell is located at the Cotton Gin in Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, Alabama. It looks like it would have been used by the gin when it was in its original location.
Waymark Code: WMF9YT
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 09/17/2012
Views: 2
Old Alabama Town covers some four blocks in Montgomery. It is the home to restored buildings that have been moved to this location to serve as a museum of life in the 1800s in Alabama. The cotton gin was one of their projects. The gin, built around 1900, was moved to Old Alabama Town and restored to look as it did when it was a full-time working gin.It had ceased operation by 1942. When the owner was getting ready to demolish it in the 1980s, two Old Alabama Town supporters acquired it and arranged for it to be stored until it could be moved and rebuilt on the current site in the Working Block. The gin was opened in 1993, in time to celebrate the bicentennial of Eli Whitney's cotton gin. This particular gin was run by a steam engine. There was no information at the site or one the web about the bell in particular, so my guess is that it was part of the building and equipment they moved to this place.
From the grass in front of the bell, one can see the words "The E. W. Vanduzen co. Cincinnati" at the top and "L. C. Young. 1902" on the side. On the back it says "Buckey Bell Foundry" on the top.
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