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Shotgun home (ca. 1900) of postmaster Louis Piernas, 202 South Toulme Street, Bay St. Louis (FEMA photo2013)
Early 20th Century Prosperity (1900-1929)
The town of Kiln benefitted from early 20th century expansion of the lumber industry. W.W. Carre purchased and combined two local mills in 1909^When the mill burned in 1912, Edward Hines purchased the company, integrating remaining buildings into a new, larger facility, the Jourdan River Lumber Company, which grew to be one of the largest lumber mills in the south (Ellis, 1998).
Today, there are few historic resources in Kiln. Among the buildings that do remain are a Center Hall house at 16000.Hart Lane, built between 1900 and 1915 (Table 3. # 20), a Queen Anne style house, at 7000 Vamado Lane, built in 1905 (Table 3, # 21) and the company store for the Jourdan River Lumber Company’, located at 6148 Kiln-Delisle Road, built ca. 1913 (Table 3. # 23). Also intact is a vernacular Center Hall house at 5217 Kiln-Delisle Road, the last remaining exainple of sawmill worker housing built for the Jourdan River Lumber Company in 1913 (Table 3. # 24).
The lumber town of Pearlington, home to the Poitevent and Favre Lumber Company, had a population of 1',700 at the time of the 1900 census. The company had its own railroad that hauled timber to the Pearl River. At one point, 17 mills were located within a 10-mile radius of Pearlington. Hancock Bank even opened a branch office in the town in 1902.
Pearlington sustained a great deal of damage from Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and few historic buildings remain from the lumber era. One of dwellings that
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