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remembered as Palmetto Plantation. With the advent of timber harvesting, the landing became more and more popular for the landing of logs and hence came the name "Logtown."
The Main Street, which was then surfaced with plank, still runs eastward from the river for about two miles to where it joins with the road built over the old Indian trail that ran from the site of present day Pearlington along the high ground to the Gulf of Mexico (now Mississippi Highway 604).
To the north and parallel to Main Street run the waters of Bogahoma Bayou which once was the dividing line between Logtown and the black community of Possum Walk.
As we proceed	eastward from the river,
along the north	(left) side of Main Street
stood the following structures,in this order: home of Frank Mitchell, engineer; of Henry Hall, manager of the commissary; the Park View Hotel; the home of Roy Baxter, marina proprietor; an auto repair shop; the jail and courthouse; the home of Sid Otis, son of the mill v.p.; home of Horatio Weston, mill president (palm trees are still visible); the homes of Dr. Mead, Tom Casanova and another Casanova	family, and the Logtown
Cemetery. In front of the cemetery were the homes of Givens	Parker and Noah Fountain,
M.D. Immediately	east of the cemetery on
land now enclosed in the cemetery stood the Logtown School. Next along the street came the homes of George Summers and George Davis. The Coney Weston home (photo in this book), was next. The D.R. Wingate -Henry Weston -Asa Weston home adjoined. It was a hand-handsome, twelve-room plantation type cottage surrounded by giant oaks, sweet olive, wax myrtle, camellias and palmettos and was occupied by his descendent, Lamar Otis, in