Cotton Corner: Cotton grows into a festival of 12,000
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Last year it was estimated 12,000 people attended the Alabama Cotton Festival in Eclectic. Mayor Gary Davenport discusses the importance of the festival for the town.

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As a town centered on the cotton industry, the Alabama Cotton Festival bloomed out of Eclectic. 

Mayor Gary Davenport explained when Eclectic first began in 1907, it was a cotton hub with two cotton gins — one in town limits and one just outside its limits. 

Abigail Murphy is a multimedia reporter for Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. To contact Abigail Murphy, email abigail.murphy@alexcityoutlook.com.