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Chapter XVII The Coast in the '80s:	the railroad
brings growth...................................... 442
Chapter XVIII The Ascent of the Lumber Barons:	the lumber
mill towns in the 1870s & 1880s.................... 476
Chapter XIX Growth and Oivestation of Northern Hancock
County at the Turn of the Century:	The N.o. &
N.E. corridor is taken from Hancock County... 497
Chapter XX The Nineties - Gay and Otherwise.........................	534
Chapter XXI When Lumber Was King: The world's largest
sawmill..................................................	598
Chapter XXII The Opening Years of the Twentieth Century:
Bay St. Louis burns; oysters and the border dispute with Louisiana; Mississippi's first oilwell............................................ 628
Chapter	XXIII	The Decline and Pall of the	Primeval Forest I:
Kiln becomes a sawmill town;	the State -
prohibition era............................	668
Chapter	XXIV	The Decline and fall of the Primeval Forest II:
The final years of the lumber mills...........*.... 687
Chapter	XXV	- The Teen years ................................... 694
Chapter XXVI World War I and the Roaring Twenties................... 720
Chapter XXVII Rural Hancock county after the Lumber Era.... 806
Chapter XXVIII After the Ball was Over:	The	Great Depression
and Recovery.................................... ...	765
Chapter XXIX The Mid-Twentieth Century...........................
Chapter XXX The End of an Era: NASA razes the Pearl
River towns; Hurricane Camille razes the ? coast..............................................
Chapter XXXI Transition Into the Future:	the testing of
rocket engines evolves into a multi-agency science center.....................................
Chapter XXXII - The New Era: fun and games .........................
Epi logue...........................................................
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