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History Of Cotton Gangs in the Upper Keys

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Description: Short article about the eradication of wild cotton in the Upper Keys in the US during the 1930's to prevent the boll weevil bug from spreading to the Southern cotton fields, by workers from the Works Progress Administration program created in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt to provide jobs during the Great Depression.
History Of Cotton in the Upper Keys      Cotton harvesting in the Upper Keys is not something we normally think of doing; however, it did occur in the 1930s. It was all harvesting though - no planting! The
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