| 词条 | Cotton Palace |
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The Cotton Palace was an exhibition ground in the area of Clay Avenue, Dutton Avenue and South Sixteenth Street in Waco, Texas, It was built to highlight cotton-growing activities in the area. Following a campaign where Waco residents raised $40,000 to build the facility,[1] the Cotton Palace was opened on November 8, 1894. Governor James Hogg in attendance for the opening day, which began a month of festivities.[2] However, in January 1895, a fire closed the facility until 1910. Over the next two decades, over eight million people visited the Cotton Palace,[3] but the exposition closed permanently in the early 1930s due to the decline of the cotton market as well as the Great Depression.[4] References1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/index.php?id=931739|title=Texas Cotton Palace|last=Bird|first=Prisca|date=|website=Baylor Institute for Oral History|publisher=Baylor University|access-date=January 7, 2017}} {{coord missing|Texas}}{{Texas-struct-stub}}2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://hadleycourt.com/wacos-cotton-palace-texas-family-tradition/|title=Waco’s Cotton Palace – A Texas Family Tradition|last=Callaghan|first=Shuana|date=|website=Hadley Court|publisher=|access-date=January 7, 2017}} 3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/lbc02|title="Cotton Palace"|last=Conger|first=Roger|date=June 12, 2010|website=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=January 7, 2017}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://wacohistory.org/items/show/15|title=The Texas Cotton Palace|last=Stingley|first=Jim|date=|website=Waco History|publisher=Baylor University|access-date=January 8, 2017}} 1 : Convention centers in Texas |
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