Louisiana State Cotton Museum

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]

Louisiana State Cotton Museum

Location	7162 Highway 65 North, Lake Providence, Louisiana
Coordinates	32°49′6.13″N 91°12′32.91″W
Website	Louisiana State Cotton Museum, Secretary of State, Louisiana

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]

Gallery

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  Sharecropper cabin

References

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