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DON'T MISS VISITING "THE OLD PLACE"
French Settler's Home overlooking Historic Singing River . . . Between Biloxi and Pascagoula. Admission $1.00 plus Tax . • . Children under 15 accompanied by Parents Free.
HWY. 90 AT THE BRIDGE, GAUTIER, MISS.
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WHAT DOES HANCOCK COUNTY DO FOR A LIVING?
As we told you, Hancock’s rapidly replenishing timber pours $2,000,000 a year into the county. Which is easy to understand—as every traveler is aware of Hancock’s panorama of pine thickets that parallels Highway 90 after it leaves the Pearl River until it gets to Bay St. Louis.
But there is nothing along the Coast highway to indicate that Hancock is the largest milk producing county on the Coast, for the majority of its 82 Grade A dairies are concentrated in the Central and Northern part of the county. Some of the finest Jersey herds in the state of Mississippi are the proud possession of Hancock County—supplying the Gulf Coast and the Louisiana-Mis-sissippi Milk Producers plant in Picayune—an industry representing nearly a million dollars income annually to the county—a comparatively new industry a little over ten years old which gained its great stimulus around 1949 when rural electrification achieved full county coverage.
Nor does the U.S. 90 route tell the story that Hancock is the only county in the state of Mississippi outside of the Delta that produces flood rice commercially—that the first carload of rice in Hancock’s agricultural history was shipped in 1956 from the 133 acre plantation of L. L. Fletcher of Texas Flat Road just a few miles north of Bay St. Louis—and that he produced 20 barrels to the acre, which is 6 barrels an acre better than the Louisiana average, a state famous for flooded rice. This represents a new agricultural product in Hancock—although J. L. Crump of Holly Bluff has been producing highland rice now for about 15 years.
Hancock’s cattle also now represent a county income of around $300,000 a year—with its herds of native cattle bred with Brahma bulls on cut over land constantly improving in quality. In the county there are several registered herds of Aberdeen Angus, that of E. M. Brig-nac, Jr., on the Poplarville road about ten miles above Kiln, being one of the finest on one of the prettiest farms in the state. With no winter worries, plenty of rainfall and plenty of grazing grass this county is as yet a practically untouched cattle kingdom.
INDUSTRIES
If this article had been written a year ago we would have had to acknowledge that Hancock County possessed no manufacturing plants. But suddenly for the same basic reasons that new residents are gravitating to Hancock to live, small industrial plants are coming to locate.
In March of 1957 the Markel Manufacturing Plant, makers of aluminum framed screens and doors, moved from New Orleans to Coleman Avenue in Waveland. This company had been operating in New Orleans since 1952, but when Mr. Markel moved his home to the Coast in 1954 for his baby’s health, he
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DON'T MISS SEEING "OLD SPANISH FORT"
Oldest Building in the Mississippi Valley. Built in 1718 by French . . . later renamed by Spanish. Museum and Fort Open Daily from 9 to 5.
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