<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1PzMTf_1H5p2Q6N00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1PzMTf_1H5p2Q6N00" width="1200" height="600" >KEWANEE, Miss. (WTOK) - The inaugural Cotton Gin Festival and Vendor Fair was held on Saturday at the old Simmons-Wright Company general store and cotton gin.With live music, great vendors and company, and plenty of warm food for attendees to enjoy.The old mill ran from the 1930s until the 1960s, processing cotton for use in textile mills.Gary Pickett, with the Simmons Wright Company, recounts seeing the mill run as a child, watching wagons of cotton come in for processing.“It was quite something to see back when I was a kid, when this gin was running. Seeing the wagons that were coming here, not many truck-drawn, mostly mule-drawn, or drawn with a tractor to come get the cotton off those wagons. They would be in a circle, they’d come around and take samples of the cotton,” said Pickett.Funds raised at today’s festival will go to restoring the old Simmons-Wright cotton gin, which sits behind the general store.</div></body>

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KEWANEE, Miss. (WTOK) - The inaugural Cotton Gin Festival and Vendor Fair was held on Saturday at the old Simmons-Wright Company general store and cotton gin. With live music, great vendors and company, and plenty of warm food for attendees to enjoy. The old mill ran from the 1930s until...

Cotton Gin Festival held at Simmons-Wright General Store

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KEWANEE, Miss. (WTOK) - The inaugural Cotton Gin Festival and Vendor Fair was held on Saturday at the old Simmons-Wright Company general store and cotton g

Cotton Gin Festival held at Simmons-Wright General Store

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