Hopson Plantation is the site where the Hopson Planting Company and Internation Harvester revolutionized modern cotton farming by introducing the first commercially produced mechanical cotton picker in 1944. The plantation has been converted into The Shack Up Inn. Guests can stay in a shack or a "bin" in the converted old cotton gin. This photo shows me sitting on the porch of the Fullilove Shack where we stayed.