Who would ever think about the Keys and cotton farming in the same thought? According to the November 21, 1935 Key West Citizen the Keys had a cotton crop that needed harvesting. In the 1930's, as a part of the "New Deal" Franklin Roosevelt gave people jobs in the Keys working on building the bridges and roads, working on parks and harvesting wild cotton.
The Keys are a perfect place to grow cotton because of our frost-free weather. Wild Keys cotton grew as high as 12 feet. The President found it important to harvest the cotton to control the boll weevil which threatened in neighboring states cotton crops.
Cotton harvesting in the Keys was closer to pulling weeds. Wild cotton does not have the quality that we all know today. Wild cotton can not be spun so it's fairly useless for manufacturing.
You can find me in the Florida Keys and Key West at (305) 522-1398 or e-mail me at MayaMarieThomas@Hotmail.com.com.
Maya M. Thomas
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