While I love running my Etsy shop, it is only a hobby for me. Primarily, I stay home with my toddler and watch waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much Thomas the Tank Engine, which is all good--I watched it as a kid! (I'm not really that young, but the show has been on since the mid 1980s)
I also am a historic preservation consultant through my business SVM Historical Consulting. I've written about many different historic properties in North Carolina, with most of them in Mecklenburg County. A project I just finished up is about a cotton gin in the northern Mecklenburg County town of Cornelius. In fact, it’s the only one from the early twentieth century remaining in the county out of about 15 or so that once existed. The report I wrote will be part of its presentation to become a local historic landmark.
I write these blog entries because I’m inspired by postcards I own. In this case, the postcard pictured to the left is one that I came across in my research.
This postcard features Shaw’s Cotton Gin in Wagram, North Carolina. Farmers and their mule-drawn wagons loaded with loose cotton are waiting to have their cotton ginned. Each wagon pulls onto the scale, which is under the roof of that small outbuilding, to be weighed. Afterwards, the wagon will go over to the cotton gin, where the loose cotton will be suctioned out of the wagon into the ginning system. The results of ginning are the bales of cotton on the left side of the image.
I also am a historic preservation consultant through my business SVM Historical Consulting. I've written about many different historic properties in North Carolina, with most of them in Mecklenburg County. A project I just finished up is about a cotton gin in the northern Mecklenburg County town of Cornelius. In fact, it’s the only one from the early twentieth century remaining in the county out of about 15 or so that once existed. The report I wrote will be part of its presentation to become a local historic landmark.
I write these blog entries because I’m inspired by postcards I own. In this case, the postcard pictured to the left is one that I came across in my research.
This postcard features Shaw’s Cotton Gin in Wagram, North Carolina. Farmers and their mule-drawn wagons loaded with loose cotton are waiting to have their cotton ginned. Each wagon pulls onto the scale, which is under the roof of that small outbuilding, to be weighed. Afterwards, the wagon will go over to the cotton gin, where the loose cotton will be suctioned out of the wagon into the ginning system. The results of ginning are the bales of cotton on the left side of the image.