Rounds are delivered to the gin just down the road, where the fiber is
separated from seed. A sample from each bale is taken on-site and sent to Memphis for certification. David Hillegas
Even then, the town did things a little differently. In the 1920s, Lee’s son and heir, Roy, returned from England a devoted Anglophile and reportedly directed that all new public structures be designed in the Tudor Revival style. In the 1960s, the facades of older buildings were retrofitted in kind hardly the picture of a Southern cotton town.
But beneath it lay a native currency richer than any architectural import: a sandy, porous soil that could turn out cotton as naturally as a summer storm spins up. More than 15,000 acres in Wilson alone.