This cotton field along Bulger Creek west of the Tombigbee River is typical of the small cotton farms that once dotted the landscape of Itawamba County. During antebellum times, cotton from such farms was shipped down the nearby Tombigbee River to the port at Aberdeen in neighboring Monroe County and then shipped on to Mobile.Monday, August 25, 2008
Upriver Cotton on Bulger Creek
This cotton field along Bulger Creek west of the Tombigbee River is typical of the small cotton farms that once dotted the landscape of Itawamba County. During antebellum times, cotton from such farms was shipped down the nearby Tombigbee River to the port at Aberdeen in neighboring Monroe County and then shipped on to Mobile.
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