Louisiana State Cotton Museum
About Louisiana State Cotton Museum
Louisiana State Cotton Museum is located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history and traditions of cotton cultivation and harvest. The main gallery has life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, and a recreated juke joint.
Museum buildings include a farmhouse, commissary, chapel, exhibit hall, and tenant house. Exhibits include the history of cotton, and how it became the country's preeminent cash crop; its role in westward expansion; the state's first electric cotton gin; and musical instruments of the Delta blues.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
More museums in East Carroll Parish →Best museums in Louisiana →
Photos of Louisiana State Cotton Museum
Shared by photographers under free licenses on Wikimedia Commons. Tap a photo to see it full size there.
Visitor reviews
No one has reviewed Louisiana State Cotton Museum yet. If you've been, tell other visitors what stood out and when you went. Anyone who has visited can write one, with or without their name, and we read each review before it appears.
No reviews yet. Been here? Be the first to share your visit.
Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 35 miles of Louisiana State Cotton Museum; the closest, Louisiana State Cotton Museum, is about 1.2 miles away.
