(Note: The following is part of a series of articles looking at the history and evolution of agriculture in Georgia and Bulloch County.) In Bulloch County, the industrial revolution in cotton production eventually arrived with the signing of the agreement to build the “Bulloch Oil Mill” Nov. 14, 1902. The mill became Bulloch County’s first industrial plant and first real industry and was, literally, a community undertaking. A Mr. Preston asked the citizens to subscribe, estimating it would take $30,000 to build the plant.