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Old Cotton Oil Mill |
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711 North Melwood St., Winters,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
31° 57' 58.21121999988",
-99° 57' 56.40891999984"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
First local industrial plant. Processed cottonseed into cake, meal, hulls, oil. Gave city a good payroll, a work whistle marking times of day, and a good aroma. Built 1909-10 by Bird, Hall and Mertz, of San Angelo. Stone for millhouse was quarried at Posey farm, on Gap Creek (southeast of city). Owned by Herman Giesecke and Associates, of Ballinger (1911-27); then by Anderson, Clayton & Co., of Houston. Mill closed in 1939 after cotton farming declined. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Old Cotton Oil Mill Historical Marker Location Map, Winters, Texas
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