LOUISIANA STATE COTTON MUSEUM
Lake Providence

The Louisiana State Cotton Museum began as an idea by a group of volunteers in the 1960s and was later brought to life by the East Carroll Historical Society. Since its opening in 1995, the museum is dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of cotton cultivation and its influence on life in Louisiana.

Cotton was an expensive crop to produce and kept those who farmed it busy year round. In the gin building, visitors can hand crank the cotton gin, which was invented in 1793 to speed up the farming process. In addition to the replica gin, the 7-acre museum complex includes a 100-year-old planter's house original to the site, and is surrounded by a sharecropper's cabin relocated from Mound Plantation near Tallulah; a commissary, which was a general store on a Delhi plantation; a plantation church; and an exhibit hall.

Click HERE to view the museum's brochure.