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100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Punkin Center Gin owner Al Crisp stands among his operation that has been going strong for a century. It’s one of five gins still operating in Dawson County. He plans to celebrate his business’ centennial birthday after the ginning season ends.

It was a more detailed search in the records before Al Crisp realized his cotton gin, the second oldest in the state and the oldest in West Texas, was turning 100.He was just off by two years in his calculations. When he first began researching the age of Punkin Center Gin, he thought it started ginning cotton in 1926. He wanted to be prepared for the big day and thought he had more than enough time to do it.It was through additional investigation before he realized he was a few months off from the actual June 11, 1924 birth date.“I ...

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