Cotton Palace
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The Cotton Palace was an exhibition ground in the area of Clay Avenue, Dutton Avenue and South Sixteenth Street in Waco, Texas, It was built to highlight cotton-growing activities in the area.
Following a campaign where Waco residents raised $40,000 to build the facility,[1] the Cotton Palace was opened on November 8, 1894. Governor James Hogg in attendance for the opening day, which began a month of festivities.[2]
However, in January 1895, a fire closed the facility until 1910. Over the next two decades, over eight million people visited the Cotton Palace,[3] but the exposition closed permanently in the early 1930s due to the decline of the cotton market as well as the Great Depression.[4]
References
- ^ Bird, Prisca. "Texas Cotton Palace". Baylor Institute for Oral History. Baylor University. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Callaghan, Shuana. "Waco's Cotton Palace – A Texas Family Tradition". Hadley Court. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Conger, Roger (June 12, 2010). ""Cotton Palace"". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Stingley, Jim. "The Texas Cotton Palace". Waco History. Baylor University. Retrieved January 8, 2017.