Brent Glass
Would he bring his cotton here, also? Was there a cotton gin?
Flossie Moore Durham
Yes, there was a cotton gin here, too. There really was a cotton gin then, and they’d gin all the cotton anybody’d bring in. There was a lot more manufacturing here then than there are now. Because they had a blacksmith’s shop that done a lot of work, because then there was a lot of mules and horses that had to be looked after. And they had a good blacksmith’s shop right down there in the bottom, like. On down a little farther was the cotton gin, and on down a little farther then was the grist mill. Well, they done good work, all of them did. And then the cotton mill was right down below where it’s at now, but the one at that time burnt down. And there’s been a new one built since then. But most of the houses that’s over there on that hill was here then, but a lot of them was practically new. But oh, they look bad now.