The Cotton Gin complex that graced Route 66 in Kellyville, Okla., for decades was torn down in recent weeks.
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When we passed through town Saturday, we found that the property where the Cotton Gin stood was scraped clean, with the steel skeleton being build in the back of the land. No traces of the historical building remain.
The Cotton Gin had been the home of a diner and an antiques store. Both had been operating fitfully in the past decade or so.
Cotton gins were established shortly after the town was founded in 1893. I’m not sure of the age of the business that was torn down recently, but I’m guessing the 1940s or ’50s.
I’ll miss the old Cotton Gin. It served as a prominent landmark for Route 66 travelers passing through Kellyville, and it offered a glimpse of the town’s past.
Awww heck! I loved that cotton gin building, too.
A few years ago we lost that old, stone motorcourt where that Fastenal warehouse now stands, now the Cotton Gin.
Another link to our past is gone.