The area has been a center of cotton growing, and the museum exhibits the history and traditions of cotton cultivation and harvest.

The main gallery has life-sized dioramas, farming equipment, and a recreated juke joint.

[1] Museum buildings include a farmhouse, commissary, chapel, exhibit hall, and tenant house.

[2] Exhibits include the history of cotton, and how it became the country's preeminent cash crop; its role in westward expansion; the state's first electric cotton gin; and musical instruments of the Delta blues.

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