Ghost Town of
​Cotton Gin

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Marker Text: ​Settled prior to 1848, when Dr. J. S. Wills established a mule-drawn gin here. Post office was founded in 1851, the year county was organized. Dr. Wills gave a block of land for courthouse, but voters declined to make Cotton Gin the county seat. 
        Town had 3 churches, a good school, a newspaper, a Masonic Lodge, stores and saloons.
        In the 1870's when Houston & Texas Central Railroad built a few miles to the west, business interests left here. Cotton Gin illustrates fate of hundreds of early Texas towns by-passed by railroads, highways and industry. (1967)

Marker No: 9870

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.679882, -96.359604

Location: about 5.5 miles west of Teague on US 84, then .8 mile north on FM 1366, then east on Spur 1366 about .2 mile to marker