What happened to the cotton gin in Niederwald, Texas.

Here is what happened to the cotton gin in Niederwald, Texas.

The cotton gin once located off Highway 21 (TX 21) in Niederwald, Texas was actually the former Niederwald-Mendoza Gin Company which operated from 1925 to 1980. Niederwald-Mendoza Gin Company once produced and sold cotton to the Niederwald community.



 

It is actually an old abandoned cotton gin once owned by Lineaus Lorette who bought the small town of Niederwald, Texas in 1982. With that purchase came the former cotton gin that belonged to Niederwald-Mendoza Gin Company. He took up residence in the old cotton gin next to the old Niederwald City Hall. He lived in the cotton gin all alone by himself. Although he owned the cotton gin itself, he actually lived in a shed offsite from Highway 21.

During sometime in the 1990s, Lineaus Lorette left Niederwald and returned to West Texas to care for his ailing mother as her health was declining. This led the cotton gin to fall into a further dilapidated state and become abandoned once again and would sit vacant for a number of years.

This old cotton gin sat vacant for a number of years until 2014. The dilapidated cotton gin that abandoned for years had been torn down in the year 2014. All treasures were destroyed in the process of demolition. A Canadian company called Walton Development and Management purchased land where the cotton gin once served the community. Walton Development and Management intends to sell the land to developers who will turn it into One Niederwald Place. There are plans for massive development.