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Hancock -Go. and Poplarville and all record at Gainsville were distroyed by fire, after that they moved the Hancock County
seat and built a Court House at Bay St. Louis, Miss, what was known as St. Louis Bay. After the records were distroyed by fire, all land owners records, had to be acquired from Jackson, Miss, and Washington, D. C.
On or about that time a large saw mill were built on the East bank of the Pearl River at Logtown, Miss, known as H. Weston Lumber Company. They logging Rail Road all along the western part of Hancock County, and into part of Pearl Rover County, to cut timber that they had purchased through that era.
In the early part of 1900, a saq Mill Luber company, known as W.W. Carre Lumber Company from Neworleans, La. came to Kiln,
Miss, and purchased a saw mill and land site from a Mr. Emils Coue, sr. who had been operation a mill on the north bank of Jordan Siver for some years. On Jordan River bank(??) Kiln.
They operated that mill for a few years known as Jordan River Lumber Co. they also started loging a rail road just North of Jordan River, known as Cossie Lake and south of Highway 60 3.
On-a lake surrounding on island, and they continued the rail road up throug what is known as Rocky-hill, along the road now #603 is now built, from there the railroad gradually turned east. They built a logging camp just north of what is known as Sand-Hill Creek, which was their head quarter.
They built a boom across that lake that I mentioned above, and they would unload the logs in that lake. They had a machine bieng operated on ground that would pich up those logs and load them on a barge fron ther they would towe the BArges by tug boat to their mill in New Orleans to their saw mill. This lake is still known as Lake Carre. At the ?<Lme they were operating a Ferry to cross Jordan River, Mr. Albert J. McLiod was living just south of Jordan River, the old road was just a short distant south of this lake Carre.
At that time or some time later Mr. A. J. McLord, became interested in turpentine and saw mill business, he had a large commissary built on the South Bank of Jordan River, he also had a good many houses on his premises for his labor and family to live in, no rent would be charged for those houses. At that