Infrastructure Updates and Disasters

In 1935, the Washington County Board of Supervisors approved the construction of a bridge over Deer Creek which would connect nearby Leland with the Stoneville complex. The following year, a fire destroyed the gin and the cottonseed storage building. When the new replacement facility was completed, it was considered one of the most modern pure seed and storage units in the entire country at the time. But as new technology emerged, the facility was outdated by the late 1950s, and the gin was removed, and the remaining buildings were converted to laboratories as needed.

-100 Years of Agricultural Research, The Delta Branch Experiment Station (2004)