Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village

The museum opened on July 4, 1976 under its original name, the Agrirama, and has since become the Georgia Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village, a facility of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. More than 35 historic buildings were moved onto the 95-acre grounds and carefully restored, arranged as an 1870s-era farm settlement, a progressive farmstead of the 1890s, an industrial complex, a rural town, a national peanut complex, and the Museum of Agriculture Center — with the Vulcan steam train circulating on 3-foot narrow gauge track. Among the preservation showpieces is a reconstructed cotton gin demonstrating ginning technology of 1890–1900, the era when mid-nineteenth-century gins were giving way to Robert S. Munger's system gin; its equipment was made by Lummus of Columbus, Georgia, a firm that moved to Savannah in 1999 and still builds cotton gins today. The museum operates the gin for the public annually.