Marker Inscription
First local industrial plant. Processed cottonseed into cake, meal, hulls, oil. Gave city a good payroll, a work whistle marking times of day, and a good aroma. Built 1909-10 by Bird, Hall and Mertz, of San Angelo. Stone for millhouse was quarried at Posey farm, on Gap Creek (southeast of city). Owned by Herman Giesecke and Associates, of Ballinger (1911-27); then by Anderson, Clayton & Co., of Houston. Mill closed in 1939 after cotton farming declined. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962
About this site
Cotton Oil Mill, Old is a historical marker in Winters, Runnels County, dedicated in 1962. It is one of 49 historical markers documented in Runnels County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 60 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 31.9679, -99.9657 near Winters. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cooke, Robert, M.D. (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Winters Brass Band, Winters FFA Chapter, and First Methodist Church of Winters.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5399003713. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
