The end of the war brought the end of slavery. on which much of the Carolina rice industry was dependent and because of which it was doomed. Rice was not forgotten in America. however. Before the turn of the 20th century hardy settlers found that the rich. loamy soils of the newly cleared Mississippi Delta bottomlands and the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana were uniquely suited to rice production. Shortly before 1900. German immigrants came to Arkansas Grand Prairie and founded the city of Stuttgart. It was not long before they took up cultivation of the new crop. Robert Bennett helped them.
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