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THE HISTORY OF LOGTOWN Mildred Otis Fountain Prai-cgu &
On October 25,	1961,	the National Space Administration (NASA)
announced that it was acquiring Logtown as part of its space program. All buildings were moved or demolished. The people who lived and worked there were forced to relocate. By 1964, Logtown had become an uninhabited buffer zone. The history that follows honors the sacrifice, in the name of progress, of a small town and its inhabitants.
One hundred years ago, Logtown was a thriving town, where lumber mills had been in existence for several decades.
After the War of 1812, the United States Government decided to build forts to protect New Orleans from attacks similar to the one by the British in 1815. While building Fort Pike, soldiers came to the site of Logtown to procure timbers to lay in the marsh before beginning construction of a bridge. They called the place Logtown because of several log houses on the bank of Pearl River, and because they got logs there.
In later years, one of the mills in Logtown was the E. G. Goddard Lumber Company of Saganaw, Michigan. Mr. Goddard and co-owner Mr. Judd)^helped in developing the town by building houses for the company officials, a boarding house and a store. About 1893, this mill ceased to operate.