Frank at the cotton gin

Texas · United States · Haunted site

The restaurant was one of the first electric cotton gins in Texas in the 1920s. The groundsman is said to have lost the person he loved and not survived.

This restaurant at Gruene, Texas was one of the first electric cotton gins in the state when it was built in the 1920s.

The staff call him Frank, and he was the groundsman.

What is said locally is that his lover had recently died and that he could not bear it. What happened under the rafters of the vaulted ceiling is not documented and is not asserted here.

He is reported in the building.

Gruene is an unusual survival. It was a cotton town that the boll weevil and the Depression finished off together, and it sat empty for decades until the buildings were bought and reopened rather than pulled down. Gruene Hall next door is the oldest dance hall in Texas.

An electric gin was a serious modernisation in the 1920s and this building was the centre of the town's working life.

The restaurant is open.

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Frank at the cotton gin is in Texas, United States.