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Plantation
Agriculture Museum -
November 1, 2002 - November 1, 2003 Exhibit
Plantation
Agriculture Museum State Park
P. O. Box 87
Scott, AR 72142
(501) 961-1409 * F (501) 961-1579
Contact: Jason Prairie, Park Interpreter
Specific
topics to be showcased include: the manner in which
the land was made available to settlers (exploration,
surveying, grants, etc.); the types of technology used
in growing cotton (gins, presses, farm implements, steam
power, etc.), the type of labor available (slaves, indentured
servants, subsistence farmers and later sharecroppers,
tenants, etc.) and the way the industry led to the growth
of an infrastructure (steamboats, trains and roads for
transportation to market, stores to supply the plantations,
etc.)
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