North America and England. The importance of Prattville's many factories helped all people of the devastated State of Alabama and the Southern States in many ways. Daniel Pratt died, May 13, 1873, at his home, near the Gin Factory property. After his death, the Cotton Gin factory was run by Merrill Pratt and later Daniel Pratt II until 1899 when it merged with other Cotton Gin manufacturing companies to form the World famous Continental Gin Company. Continental's headquarters was built in Birmingham and then moved to Prattville in the 1960s. The Gin Factory continued to operate under different owners through the years until, the last owner, Continental Eagle Corporation stopped U. S. production in 2012. Today, a conservative estimate of 250 million people work in the many different Cotton related industries of the World. The process of Cotton Ginning is the last step in the cotton farm market operation. The market and sale of Cotton is in the form of a cleaned processed bale of cotton produced at the many Cotton Gins around the World. Many Cotton Gins still operate with machinery manufactured from the banks of the Autauga Creek in Prattville, Alabama. These Historic Prattville Factory buildings show the Craftsmanship of design and workmanship of Alabama's first industry.......You can see the very skilled work in the fingerprints of the bricks manufactured over 170 years ago. Nationally the site displays the history of industrial buildings design and construction from 1848, 1852, 1854, 1898, 1899, 1812, 1957 and 1976. Many thousands of employed workmen & women have worked with the related companies associated with these buildings. These historic Cotton Gin Factory buildings have been sometimes confused with the Prattville Manufacturing Textile factory PMC once located on the opposite side of the Autauga Creek from these Cotton Gin Factory buildings. The Textile factory buildings burned in 2002 with the textile "Picker House" the only remaining building on the town east side of the Autauga Creek. These two cotton related industries were both created by Daniel Pratt but there was no operating connections. Prattville Manufacturing PMC was a textile factory that manufactured cotton yarn and cotton cloth. The Daniel Pratt Cotton Gin Manufactory built cotton gins and other gin machinery for cotton growers around the World. Manufactured Products over the years 1848-2012 Cotton Gins, Cotton Feeders, Cotton Bale Presses, Cotton Suction Systems, Cottonseed Systems, Dust Systems, Cotton Cleaners, Seed Cotton Unloading, Cotton Drying