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HANCOCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY POST OFFICE BOX 312 BAY ST. LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI 39520 -2e-Apf±±~198&
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NEWSLETTER
Dear Member:
The next meeting of the Hancock County Historical Society will be held at the cemetery at Logtown, Mississippi on Wednesday, April 27, 1988 at 12:00 O'clock noon.
There is great excitement about this	meeting as it	is	the
first of our	planned meetings to be	held in various parts of
the county on the sites where the events that make up our history actually occurred. Nearly everyone at the March meeting signed up to attend and we are expecting a great turn-out.	}&(<
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There will be	a caravan leaving from Ruth's^ Bakery	at	130
Court Street,	Bay St. Louis at	(-peenptly-)-	on	the
morning of the —Join	us there	if you __ need
transportatiorr-or-ca±j~Charles	Gray at	467-4192 to make	> .
arrangements. This caravan will proceed	to	the Eaarlington-V-
Cemetery for.*- •bEief-s.t.op, .then	continue	to	Logtown where we
will provide a table, some chairs and toilet facilities.
There is a beautiful shaded spot beneath a large spreading oak within the cemetery fence. The road is blacktop as far as the cemetery and the remaining few hundred feet to the river is an excellent gravel roadway.
Please bring a bag lunch or sandwich. We will supply soft drinks, ice and water.
Mr. Roy Baxter of Pearlington will be our guide, pointing outv the sites of some of the many beautiful homes and businesses J that once thrived in Logtown. { Many foundations remain as "Reminders of a town that used to be" where 3,000 people lived along the banks of the Pearl River until the several small towns were torn down or moved in 1962 to make room for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility.
There is a superb view of the Pearl River from the site of old downtown Logtown where once stood a hotel, a swimming pool, a silent movie house, the sawmill and its large commissary which sold everything from ladies hats to coffins.
As late as 1961 there remained 60 families in Logtown. There was an eight-grade school, a grocery, two churches, a Masonic Lodge and a post office. Today only a cemetery remains and we shall visit it.
Please join us on this visit to Logtown. Bring a friend and your lunch.