Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. County/parish: Lee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 14, 1988. NRIS 87002390.
1 contributing site.
The Old Rotation is a soil fertility experiment on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Alabama. The Old Rotation experiment, which started in 1896, is the third-oldest ongoing field crop experiment in the United States and the oldest continuous cotton experiment in the world. It was the first experiment to show that a cotton/legume crop rotation would allow soil to support a cotton crop indefinitely. The Old Rotation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77836604