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25-549: Nutbush may refer to: Nutbush, Tennessee , a town in Haywood County, childhood home of singer Tina Turner Nutbush Township, Warren County, North Carolina , one of twelve townships in Warren County, North Carolina Nutbush, Memphis , a district of Memphis, Tennessee " Nutbush City Limits ", a song about Nutbush, Tennessee by singer Tina Turner The Nutbush ,

50-459: A U.S. Post office was opened in Nutbush, but was closed in 1905. Nutbush is located at 35°41′53″N 89°24′29″W  /  35.69806°N 89.40806°W  / 35.69806; -89.40806 (35.6981330, -89.4081280), at an elevation of 358 feet (109 m). Cotton fields and hills dominate the landscape of the surrounding area. Nutbush is situated on the south-eastern edge of

75-472: A barbed spindle to twist cotton fibers onto the spindle and then pull the cotton from the boll, but these early designs were impractical because the spindle became clogged with cotton. Rust determined that a smooth, moist spindle could be used to strip the fibers from the boll without trapping them in the machinery. In 1933 John Rust received his first patent , and eventually, he and his brother owned forty-seven patents on cotton picking machinery. However, during

100-511: A compact "brick" of seed-cotton, weighing approximately 21,000 pounds or 9.5 tonnes (16 un-ginned bales), which can be stored in the field or in the "gin yard" until it is ginned. Each ginned bale weighs roughly 480 pounds (220 kg). An industry-exclusive on-board round module builder was offered by John Deere in 2007. In c.2008 the Case IH Module Express 625 was designed in collaboration with ginners and growers to provide

125-517: A dance categorized as a Line dance, performed to the song Nutbush City Limits Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Nutbush . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nutbush&oldid=544431611 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

150-599: A share of the crop to the landowner. Modern machines such as the cotton picker superseded manual cultivation. Many farm workers left the area for cities during the Great Migration of the early 20th century. As of 2006, one cotton-processing plant in Nutbush is the only agricultural industry in the community. Lagoon Creek Peaking Facility is run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Nutbush. Eight gas turbines generate electric power for

175-420: Is buried in an area cemetery near Nutbush. Nutbush is best known as the childhood home of singer Tina Turner , then known as Anna Mae Bullock. Bullock was born in nearby Brownsville on November 26, 1939. She was raised in Nutbush, Knoxville , and Ripley by her maternal grandmother and extended family in the area. The houses she lived in as a child no longer exist, but wood from her Nutbush/Flagg Grove home

200-514: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nutbush, Tennessee Nutbush is a rural unincorporated community in Haywood County, Tennessee , United States, in the western part of the state , approximately 50 miles (80 km) north-east of Memphis . It was established in the early 19th century by European-American settlers, who bought enslaved African Americans to develop

225-416: Is the childhood home of singer Tina Turner , who described the "town" (really a tiny settlement of 259) in her 1973 song " Nutbush City Limits ". In 2002, a segment of Tennessee State Route 19 near Nutbush was named " Tina Turner Highway " in her honor. It is also the home town of pioneer blues musicians and recording artists Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes . In 2000, the population of

250-711: The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company manufactured cotton pickers using an improved Rust design. In the following years mechanical pickers were gradually improved and were increasingly adopted by farmers. The introduction of the cotton picker has been cited as a factor in the Second Great Migration . To make mechanical cotton pickers more practical, improvements in the cotton plant and in cotton culture were also necessary. In earlier times, cotton fields had to be picked by hand three and four times each harvest season because

275-852: The Great Depression it was difficult to obtain financing to develop their inventions. In 1935 the Rust brothers founded the Rust Cotton Picker Company in Memphis, Tennessee , and on 31 August 1936 demonstrated the Rust picker at the Delta Experiment Station in Stoneville, Mississippi . Although the first Rust picker was not without serious deficiencies, it did pick cotton and the demonstration attracted considerable national press coverage. Nevertheless,

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300-501: The New Madrid Seismic Zone , an area with a high earthquake risk. The U.S. ZIP Code for Nutbush is 38063 ( Ripley ) and the telephone area code is 731 . The early Black musicians and singers from the Nutbush churches recorded and influenced an international audience. Prominent recording artists include Hambone Willie Newbern and Sleepy John Estes . Harmonica player Noah Lewis of Henning, Tennessee ,

325-473: The Nutbush voting precinct (TN 3976) was 259. Of those, 42 were white (16.22%), 215 black (82.01%), and two were of another ethnicity (0.77%). At that time, 190 people (73.36%) were aged 18 or older. The community's main source of income is agriculture (especially cotton ). After the abolition of slavery , freedmen worked at sharecropping as the primary means of income. They cultivated plots of land, mostly for growing cotton , in return for paying

350-507: The Rusts' company did not have the capability of manufacturing cotton pickers in significant quantities. With the success of the Rust picker, other companies redoubled their efforts to produce practical pickers not based on the Rust patents. Then, widespread adoption was delayed by the manufacturing demands of World War II . The International Harvester Company produced a commercially successful commercial cotton picker in 1944. After World War II,

375-497: The area in times of high demand. The Nutbush community was established in the early 19th century by settlers from Virginia and North Carolina . Descended from immigrants from England , they traveled westward to the Mississippi River delta in western Tennessee. They developed this area for cotton and were dependent on the use of slave labor . These settlers founded Trinity United Methodist Church in 1822. During

400-410: The area's cotton plantations. Houses and churches built during that time still stand. Agriculture is still the most important element of the rural economy , focused on the cultivation and processing of cotton , which has been the main commodity crop since the antebellum years, when its cultivation depended on slave labor. As of 2006, there was one cotton-processing plant in the community. Nutbush

425-427: The bolls matured at different rates. It was not practical to delay picking until all the bolls were ready for picking because the quality of the cotton deteriorated as soon as bolls opened. But about the time mechanical pickers were introduced, plant breeders developed hybrid cotton varieties with bolls higher off the ground and that ripened uniformly. With those innovations, the harvester could make just one pass through

450-402: The field. Also, herbicides were developed to defoliate the plants and drop their leaves before the picker came through, producing a cleaner harvest. The first harvesters were only capable of harvesting one row of cotton at a time, but were still able to replace up to forty hand laborers . The current cotton picker is a self-propelled machine that removes cotton lint and seed (seed-cotton) from

475-445: The lint makes it to the basket at the rear of the picker. The other type of picker is the "spindle" picker. It uses rows of barbed spindles that rotate at high speed and remove the seed-cotton from the plant. The seed-cotton is then removed from the spindles by a counter-rotating doffer and is then blown up into the basket. Once the basket is full the picker dumps the seed-cotton into a " module builder ". The module builder creates

500-507: The plant at up to six rows at a time. There are two types of pickers in use today. One is the "stripper" picker, primarily found in use in Texas. They are also found in Arkansas. It removes not only the lint from the plant, but a fair deal of the plant matter as well (such as unopened bolls ). Later, the plant matter is separated from the lint through a process dropping heavier matter before

525-622: The slavery years, black enslaved people were forced to attend the church under white supervision. During and after the Civil War, more than 50 Civil War soldiers, both Confederate and Unionist , were buried in the Trinity Cemetery associated with the church. The Trinity Cemetery is mentioned on the Rootsweb Internet site as one of the best-kept cemeteries in the county. The community also had Woodlawn Church, which

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550-649: Was limited to whites and is still active. Under antebellum state law, most black congregations had to be ministered by white pastors . In 1846, Hardin Smith, who was from Virginia , was allowed to preach to a black congregation at an evening service at the white Woodlawn Church, the first time a congregation in the area was pastored by an enslaved person. After the American Civil War, the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church

575-600: Was established in 1866 by Hardin Smith and other freedmen of the community, aided by some members of the white Woodlawn Baptist Church. The freedmen soon withdrew their congregation from white supervision, as did most black Baptists in the South. They had established their own regional and national associations by the end of the century. Woodlawn Baptist Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 for its historical significance. In 1881,

600-458: Was officially designated as " Tina Turner Highway " in her honor. Cotton picker In many societies, slave labor was utilized to pick the cotton, increasing the plantation owner's profit margins (See Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade ). The first practical cotton picker was invented over a period of years beginning in the late 1920s by John Daniel Rust (1892–1954) with the later help of his brother Mack Rust. Other inventors had tried designs with

625-438: Was used to build a barn. At age 16, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri . Both Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church and Spring Hill Baptist Church in Nutbush were family churches of Tina Turner. Growing up, she attended and sang in both choirs. Her family members were church officials, musicians and singers, and various members are buried in the two cemeteries. In 2002, Tennessee State Route 19 between Brownsville and Nutbush

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