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Louisiana State Cotton Museum

Louisiana State Cotton Museum

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Louisiana State Cotton Museum is located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history and traditions of cotton cultivation and harvest. The main gallery has life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, and a recreated juke joint.[1]

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Museum buildings include a farmhouse, commissary, chapel, exhibit hall, and tenant house.[2] Exhibits include the history of cotton, and how it became the country's preeminent cash crop; its role in westward expansion; the state's first electric cotton gin; and musical instruments of the Delta blues.[2][3]

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    "La. State Cotton Museum". Sos.la.gov. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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    "Louisiana State Cotton Museum". Louisiana Travel, state of Louisiana. December 6, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
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    "Louisiana State Cotton Museum". American Heritage. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
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