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Henry Weston came south from Sakowegan, Maine for his health and for a while worked at the W. J. Poitevent Mill in Gainesville for $45.00 per month. He was hired in 1848 to operate Judge Wingate's mill in Logtown and thus began his career from a wage hand to a multi-millionaire industrialist. In 1858 he and W. W. Carre and Henry Carre bought the mill from Judge Wingate. Mr. Weston also bought the Wingate home. In 1878 he dissolved the partnership with the Carres and later he bought out their interest, becomming sole owner. His operation continued to grow. He eventually acquired the Poitevent and Favre holdings, and thereby controlled the largest sawmill in the world with a production of 30 million board feet annually. However, the large forests within range of the mill were finally depleited, and with the combing of the depression', he ceased operation'of the mill on April 1, 1930.
A few families remained in Logtown in the 1950's and the general prosperity of the time had begun to reach even to the secluded town so picturesquely nestled by the river that had nurtured it in its heyday. Then came "The longest week in history", a two day period between the publication of the first notice of the proposed NASA base with the meeting of Senator John C. Stennis and the residents of Hancock and Pearl River Counties on November 1, 1962.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility now stands as a stairway to man's future while nearby nature slowly covers the steps of his past. It has always been thus, but for today at least, the , long-silent woods around Logtown once more-' ring with the happy voices of people enjoying being a part of Logtown revisited.