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Bessemer Model IV At Burton Cotton Gin

By Douglas Ratchford

302 Scenic Brook Brenham, Texas 77833

The best preserved unrestored example of its kind," is what antique engine collector Chris Kable Sr. of Spirit Lake, Iowa called the 1925 Bessemer Model IV diesel engine at the Burton Farmers Cotton Gin in Burton, Texas.

This has been determined to be the only gin in the country from the nineteen teens and twenties period of ginning technology that is still standing, intact and complete. Not only that, most of the machinery still works. A local non-profit organization, Operation Restoration, was formed by concerned local citizens to restore this facility and eventually operate it as a hands on working museum, actually ginning cotton. The motive power for this will come from the gin's pride and joy, the Bessemer.

The Smithsonian Institution, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Tex...

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