The small agricultural town of Shelby has a cotton gin, two liquor stores and not much else.
James Henry also ran a winery, a nursery and orchards, and owned a cotton gin.
At the museum, you can wear a corset, use a cotton gin or try other activities Americans would have done in the past
It was dusk before we got within sight of the grist mill and cotton gin.
The influence of the horse reaper on our political history, therefore, is as important as the influence of the steam locomotive or of the cotton gin.
The invention of the cotton gin and textile machinery created a market for cotton which the planters, with all their skill and energy, could hardly supply.