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  • Collection: Farming and Agricultural Activities

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Burchfield Brothers Wholesale Grocers and other local businessmen and farmers participated in a parade to increase the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the rest of the south suffered severe…

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Farmers and suppliers around Tuscaloosa protested the low price of cotton. They wanted to raise the price to 10 cents per pound. Those identified on this truck are Judge W.W. Brandon, Sam Clabaugh, R.B. Cochrane, Will Raiford and Clayton…

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Cotton farmers rally together to raise the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the rest of the south suffered severe economic shock. With the outbreak of World War I, the foreign market for cotton –…

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A parade, an attempt to boost the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound, travels west on Broad Street (now University Boulevard), approaching Market Street (now Greensboro Avenue) in Tuscaloosa.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the…

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Cotton farmers rally together to raise the price of cotton to 10 cents a pound.

Cotton Crisis of 1914: In 1914, Tuscaloosa and the rest of the south suffered severe economic shock. With the outbreak of World War I, the foreign market for cotton –…

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Grover Grammer bought the old Hagler's Mill on Binion Creek in north Tuscaloosa County in the 1940s before electricity was available. The mill had been built by Edward Hagler in 1866.

Grammar ran the mill by water power, grinding corn meal,…

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Grover Grammer bought the old Hagler's Mill on Binion Creek in north Tuscaloosa County in the 1940s before electricity was available. The mill had been built by Edward Hagler in 1866.

Grammar ran the mill by water power, grinding corn meal, sawing…

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John Frederick Mullenix is pictured in 1938 with his 5-year-old son, Searcy Mullenix, beside his 1927 Model T that he used to deliver Watkins products and other goods to rural families in northern Tuscaloosa County.

A longtime resident of Echola,…

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Floyd W. Mullenix of Echola with mules used for farming.

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1898 -The Mullenix Farmhouse, formerly the Brown House, at 15880 Boyd Road in the Echola community in Tuscaloosa County was built in 1896 by Isaiah Cap and Elizabeth Sissie Brown, pictured on the left. Their children Minnie Brown, Maggie Brown and…
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