Browntown Cotton Gin, SC Route 341 between Johnsonville & Lake City, Johnsonville, Florence County, SC

Significance: Part of a unique collection of buildings known as Browntown, reflecting the self-sufficient way of life practiced by several generations of the Brown family during the 19th & early 20th centuries. There are 11 remaining Browntown buildings, including the cotton gin building, three residences, a school, a tobacco barn, and several outbuildings. The gin building was designed to house the Brown's cotton gin and to provide for the transmission of horse-power to run the gin. The building is very significant in the field of engineering and represents an intelligent adaptation of traditional technology and materials to solve a complex problem.

Survey number: HAER SC-13

Building/structure dates: 18q1 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82003850

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1969 - 1980

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