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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: March 15, 2009
Caption: Cotton Compress
Additional Description: Cotton bales were required to conform to specific dimensions and densities. The compress did just that by, as the word implies, compressing the cotton. With the move to bulk processing of modular blocks from the field, this facility is not used. The railroad, mentioned on the marker, ran along in front of the compress building. In the 1980s the line was removed.
Submitted: March 30, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p57663
File Size: 0.777 Megabytes

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