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Early Cotton Press

Latta, SC

A massive wooden screw press survives as a rare example of the machinery once used to compress cotton into transportable bales. Its oversized timbers and primitive mechanical design make the structure look almost like a wooden siege engine.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: scpictureproject.org/dillon-county/early-cotton-press.html

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