1930s Cotton Compress Chimney -- Sweetwater TX
N 32° 27.996 W 100° 24.648
14S E 367415 N 3593033
A lonely chimney and an obsolete cotton compress at an otherwise scraped-off old cotton processing plant in Sweetwater TX.
Waymark Code: WMH62D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2013
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A lonely chimney and an obsolete cotton compress are all that remains of a giant former cotton mill operation located in a triangle of land bordered by three sets of railroad tracks at Sam Houston Street and W Ave A in Sweetwater TX.
The three railroads that served this mill were as follows:
To the north: The Texas and Pacific Railway
To the west: The Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
To the SW-NE: The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway
From ebay, an antique postcard of the mill as it once was: (
visit link)
The compress was built in 1929, which helps (somewhat) date this facility.