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I; Postoffice Closing, Same Fate in Store for Logtown
MRS. LOLLIE B. WRIGHT, postmaster of Logtown, Miss., stands In (runt of tlio town post office which is scheduled to close Sept. 30. Mrs. Wright Is retiring after nearly 37 years of sorvlce. The post office has served nearly. 9p years.' It is being cleared away with the rest of Logtown for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s missile test site. Most of the town already has been abandoned. Logtown mall will be delivered In the future ' pearlington.
LOGTOWN, Miss.—The picturesque little antique postoffice at Logtown will close its door Sept. 30 alter almost 90 years of service, the Postmaster Mrs. Lollie B. Wright will: retire,. and that is very near the end of Logtown, once a booming lumber camp where more than 500 men worked.
Mrs. Wright, who has spent most of her lifetime in the tiny 209-square foot frame building, put in for retirement recently after 36 years and 8 months on the job. The postal inspector came around and had a look, approved the. retirement, and decided to close the dying postoffice in the dying town. Mail will be handled through the Pearlington general delivery.
Logtown, home now to less than 25 families where once thousands lived and worked, is doomed by the expansion of the NASA buffer zone which takes in the area, and from which everyone must be gone before next spring, as NASA gets ready to test the moon vehicles.
Once Booming Camp in Test Facility Zone
MAY BE PRESERVED
Roy Baxter, who operates the Pearl River Marina which once was the busy H. Weston Lumber Co., office and commissary, owns the post office building along with most everything else at the foot of the one Logtown street where it meets the beautiful Pearl River. He has not decided what to do with the building when he moves his marina to Pearlington next spring, but it is possible NASA may buy and preserve the well-known little structure.
It has some interesting furnishings, including a little wooden heating stove which has warmed the office for all these years, Mrs. Wright’s original commission dated Jan. 17th, 1927 and signed . by then President Calvin Coolidge, about, 50 old-fashioned combination lock boxes, and other postal paraphernalia collected from the 19th century.