Pratt Gin Factory - Prattville, AL
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N 32° 27.612 W 086° 27.060
16S E 551595 N 3591579
This marker has information about the Pratt cotton gin manufacturing plant.
Waymark Code: WMFZWY
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 12/25/2012
Views: 11
Located at a busy intersection of South Memorial Drive and South Main Street, this old marker tells travelers they are a mile from the Pratt facility. Back when this was placed in 1952, the factory was operating and employing many workers as the Continental Gin Company.
The text of the marker reads:
Pratt Gin Factory
Once world's largest plant manufacturing cotton gins.
Founded 1833 by Daniel Pratt, greatest industrialist of Alabama prior to 1860. Pratt's many industries were of great aid to Confederacy during Northern blockade.
Alabama Historica Association
1952
Marker Name: Pratt Gin Factory
Marker Type: Urban
Addtional Information::
The site of the marker is on U.S. Highway 31, which would have been a main road in the days before the interstate highway system.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1950
Marker Number: None
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