Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District

Historic district in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place


Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


33°45′48″N 91°16′36″W / 33.76333°N 91.27667°W / 33.76333; -91.27667
Area	2.3 acres (0.93 ha)
Built	1950 (1950)
Architectural style	Plain Traditional
MPS	Cotton and Rice Farm History and Architecture in the Arkansas Delta MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000491^[1]
Added to NRHP	June 1, 2005

The Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District encompasses the only cotton gin extant in the Rohwer area of Desha County, Arkansas. The gin was built in 1950 by O. O. Kemp, a few years after the closure of the Rohwer War Relocation Center, where as many as 10,000 Japanese-Americans were interned during the Second World War. After the center's closure much of its land was returned to agricultural use, and Kemp built this gin near the Missouri Pacific Railroad line that ran through Rohwer. In addition to the gin, the complex Kemp built includes a pump house, scale house, and office.^[2] This entire complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Kemp Cotton Gin Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 11, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.