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Frogmore Plantation
1800-acre working cottonplantation with
gins, and 19 dependency buildings
Guided tours that fully explain the changes
of a working cotton plantation from the
1700's through the present, two of the tour guides are the owners of
Frogmore Plantation, George
and Lynette Tanner. Dressed
in full costume to guide tours, with their staff, they teach
about slave culture and the plantation system in America, based
on former slave narratives and extensive archives.
George Tanner personally relates unusual products, cotton techniques,
and world facts to group tours, and he is almost always available to
answer questions for individuals as well, offering a comprehensive historical tour,
and include the agricultural, botanical, and industrial aspects in
the tour. Cotton and cottonseed products, world
production and statistics, and unusual cotton facts are included in the
modern-day tour.
Displays include tools
and antiques in the authentically restored dependency
buildings. Several different tours are offered, designed to fit the interests of
visitors.
The plantation also has a modern, computerized 900- bales-per-day cotton
gin. Ten months of the year, visitors can pick cotton and weigh it in!
Historical --
Educational -- Agricultural -- Industrial
 18 restored antebellum structures that date from the early
1800's. Along with the history of the early Natchez planters, and
sharecropping, the tour includes a rare Smithsonian quality steam cotton
gin. Listed on the National Register, this pre-civil war building
houses rare Munger equipment. Robert Samuel Munger was the first person to
invent suction in the gins, and also he created the continuous ginning
system with the double-box press, all patented in 1884.
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Frogmore has received the Louisiana Tourism award and
has been featured in Country Discoveries magazine, AAA Southern Traveler,
Louisiana Cultural Vistas, and other magazines. Frogmore has even been
in Public Broadcasting System documentaries! |
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see what we've got at Frogmore! |
