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Bayou Cocodrie
National Wildlife Refuge

Byerley House Museum

CJ Walker

Crescent Plantation

Cushy Alpacas

Delta Music Museum

Delta Airlines Beginnings

Flag Plaza

Frogmore  Plantation

Golfing

Grants Canal

Hermoine Museum

Jerry Lee Lewis Home Tour

Lake Bruin State Park

Lake Concordia

Lake Providence

Lake St. John

Louisiana Cotton Museum

Mississippi River

Poverty Point Historical Site

Tensas River
National Wildlife Refuge

Thomas Jason Lingo
Community Center 

Transylvania

Underground Railroad Marker

Winter Quarters

What Else We've Got:

Okra Salt Domes | Agriculture | Hiking | Wildlife  | Ancient Mounds | Festivals | Much More!

There ought to be a law against anybody going to Europe until they have seen the things we have in this country.

- Will Rogers

 
 

Louisiana State Cotton Museum

Cotton!  White gold!  From field to factory, cotton historically employed more Americans than any other industry.  Cotton has impacted world trade, technological development, the American Expansion, African-American history, the Civil War, and the Great Depression.

This 30-acre museum complex has:

  • a 100+ year-old Planter's House original to the site, 

  • an original sharecropper's cabin

  • commissary

  • plantation church

  • replicated gin building and 

  • exhibit hall. 

 

Louisiana Cotton Museum, Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
   

You can also operate a music mixing-board, listen to the blues on an old-time jukebox, and watch an orientation video.  Exhibits detailing how cotton was historically planted, grown, picked, ginned and manufactured, and how cotton has played a pivotal role in American culture.  Displays of operations of a typical cotton plantation with cotton for the major cash crop. 

The historic Homer Cotton Gin, Louisiana's first electric powered cotton gin, is housed at the Cotton Museum, also.cotton.stalk.jpg (228561 bytes)

The exhibit hall is used for local events and can be reserved by contacting 318-559-2041.

The Museum has activities for children at Christmas and Easter, and a conference center will be built.   

Hours:   April-October: 9 to 4:30
                November-March: 9 to 4

Cost:  FREE 
Telephone: 
318-559-2041 
Website: http://sos.louisiana.gov/museums/cotton/cotton-index.htm  
Tours: 
Yes! Please call 318-559-2041 for groups of 15 or more.
Address:  7162 Highway 65 North, Lake Providence, Louisiana 71254  
Email: 
cotton@sos.louisiana.gov 
Three miles north of Lake Providence on US Hwy 65
Parish:  East Carroll


Lake Providence
Transylvania
Poverty Point
ThomasJason Lingo Community Center
East Carroll Parish
West Carroll Parish

 

 

Towns >  Lake Providence  Oak Grove  Transylvania    Tallulah   Newellton   St. Joseph   Vidalia   Ferriday
   
Parishes >  East Carroll  West Carroll  Madison   Tensas  Concordia

Louisiana Delta 65, Inc.
305 Dabney Street
Tallulah, Louisiana  71282
Telephone:  318-574-8519
Website: www.ladelta65.org
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