Cotton Weighing

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Cotton, a significant economic factor in the early economy of Meriwether County, is weighed by B. B. Lovett Sr. (center), E. D. Gill (left), and Henry Hegman at Lovett's warehouse in Woodbury, circa 1925. Lovett also owned substantial acreage in the county at that time.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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Cotton Weighing

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