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become tho residence portion of the town. The U. S. Land OiTiCe was transferred from Chocchuma to Grenada in 1842.
Outside the city of Grenada, the only incorporated towns in the county are Holcomb and Elliott, in the southwestern and southern parts.
Grenada County has quite a standing as an agricultural region. Its farm property is valued at $5,696,000, and its crops brought $2,195,000 to the farmers in 1919. Both vegetables and fruit do well.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Hancock County is the westernmost of the three gulf counties of the State and was originally established in the territorial period, on December 14, 1812. Some of its territory went for the formation and expansion of Pearl River County in 1890 and 1908, respectively. The county now has an area of 469 square miles.
Hancock County was named in honor of John Hancock, and has had a varied and romantic history. The coast region along its southern border was first discovered by the Spaniards and later rediscovered by La Salle and colonized by Iberville for the French. A part of the great French Province of Louisiana for a time, by the treaty of Paris in 1763, it became a British possession and was incorporated with the newly established province of West Florida. It was not until early in the nineteenth century that the settlements of the whites penetrated far into the interior of the county from the coast, as all of southern Mississippi wTas up to that time in the actual occupancy of the Indians. Under the treaties of Fort Adams, December 17, 1801, and Mount Dexter, November 16, 1S05, the Indians relinquished to the United States all the southern portion of the present State of Mississippi, and May 14,1812, the district of Mobile, lying east of Pearl River, west of the Perdido and south of the 31st degree of latitude, was annexed to the Mississippi territory. A few months later, December 14, 1812, all that part of this region lying within the present limits of Mississippi, was erected into the two large counties of Hancock and Jackson. The original act defined the limits of Hancock as follows:	“All that tract of country lying south of
the 31s£.^egreexTf	of the'line jrunning due
north from the’viniddleiOfsthe^Ba^ofrBiloxiTotK^iiit^diS^ee^f4^
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norih’Jatifude and east'of''the" Pearl/Hiver.” February 5, 1841,"’ that portion of Hancock lying east of the line between ranges 13
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