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Cotton Grows Wild |
| From the Anguilla Local News - Site Map. |
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Cotton Grows Wild |
| From the Anguilla Local News - Site Map. |
![[Click to view entire cotton 'tree']](images/cotton1.jpg)
Anguilla was once a cotton producer,
and there are still cotton plants on the island
and a cotton ginnery you can view in
Old Cotton Gin Ice Cream Parlour.
There are stories that the famous "sea island" cotton was
brought to Georgia by a planter who discovered it on
Anguilla after he purchased a small plantation here.
Extensions to the story suggest that he subsequently moved
to Mississippi and founded a town
that he named Anguilla,
Mississipi. It is hard to
know how much of this is true, but there is such a town
and Anguilla BWI did have a visitor from there recently
whose personal family history confirmed some of the story.
This picture was taken by visitors Gordon and Laurie McDonald on the old side road along Forest Bay. This is their 3rd visit to Anguilla from Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, and they always spend a large portion of each trip exploring the plants and animals. They also found that it was possible to take a very economical two-day side trip to Dominica, which is incredibly lush with nature. They enjoyed themselves so much they made up a web page for the $24/night guest house they discovered on Dominica!
Revised: March 15, 1998
