Cotton & Music, Then & Now
Nineteen historical buildings, dating from 1790’ s to 1900, are a restored tribute to Frogmore Cotton Plantation & Gins, a modern 1,800-acre working cotton estate with a computerized farm and gin. Meet the owner who will explain the farming and ginning operations. Participate in picking cotton and removing the seeds and tour a rare, steam engine gin listed on the National Register of Historic Properties. Be seated in the hand-hewn log cabin and listen to narration and the vocalist’ s songs, highlighting the history of southern plantations, including the Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, and the enslaved and planter families. Explore the cotton fields and authentic cabins to learn the origin of southern cuisine, the day-to-day operations and how their labor force evolved into sharecropping, a way of life for 100 years.
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