Cotton Green: Difference between revisions

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| postal_code = 400015400033<ref name="pcode">{{cite web|url=https://pincode.org.in/400015400033|title=Pin code : Cotton Green, Mumbai

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There was an earlier Cotton Green in Colaba that is marked in old maps.<ref>{{cite web|title=Map of South Bombay 1893|url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/Bombay1893.jpg}}</ref> That location is now part of [[Badhwar Park]]. Cotton was shipped from this location as recently as 1910.<ref>{{cite web|title=Photo of Cotton Green, Colaba.|url=http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/colaba-cotton.html|access-date=1 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033746/http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/colaba-cotton.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The station is named Cotton Green after an Art Deco building of the "Cotton Exchange" and a series of warehouses. The older Cotton Green in Colaba was thus named because it was in a [[village green]] and housed the original cotton exchange.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shepherd|first1=Samuel T|title=Bombay Place Names and Street Names - An Excursion into the by-ways of the history of Bombay City|date=1917|publisher=The Times Press|location=Bombay|url=https://archive.org/details/bombayplacenames00sheprich|accessdateaccess-date=1 November 2014}}</ref>

One more possibility is as follows. The station is named Cotton Green after an Art Deco building of the "Cotton Exchange" and a series of warehouses. The older Cotton Green in Colaba was thus named because it was in a village green and housed the original cotton exchange. In the 18th Centurycentury the area around the only English church (Today’sToday's St. Thomas Church at Fort, BomabyBombay (Mumbai)) was situated on what is called as the Green, a spacious area that continued from the Fort thereto, and was pleasantly laid out in walks planted with trees. The area was naturally called ‘Bombay Green’. Due to the area’sarea's proximity to the docks and the piled bales of Cotton for trade thereat, it came to be referred as ‘Cotton Green’. In 1844, cotton trade was shifted from this area to further south at Colaba. The new locality came to be called rather predictably as ‘New Cotton Green’. Subsequently, due to further remodeling and reclamation, the cotton trade at ‘New Cotton Green’ was shifted to ‘Sewri-Mazgaon’ reclamation area, where a spacious Cotton Exchange Building was also built. The Rail Station opposite this Cotton Exchange Building was for obvious reasons named "Cotton Green".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Aklekar|first1=Rajendra B |title=Halt Station India|year=2014 |pages=140–141|publisher=Rupa Publications|isbn =978-81-291-3497-4}}</ref>

== History ==

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The Cotton Exchange Building was built in 1924 and used for trading in Cotton until the early 20th century1945. The building originally was in a minty green colour, today it stands tall in beige and brown around the edges and has been fully restored to its former glory. The building is a stunning example of engineering and has not needed any maintenance except replacement of glass windows which are shattered by cricket balls as children play cricket on roads around the building.

The railway station caters to the area called Kalachowki, Ferbandar and Ghodapdeo. Kalachowki is a big residential area consisting of a colony called [[Abhyudaya Nagar]] which has 43 [[MHADA]]-built (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority) housing, intended those who worked in the textile mills in the area.