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Of Hancock County
Miss Lillian's
Log Town
BY BENNIE SHALLBETTER Staff Writer
'hat is history? Surely it is more than statistics and dates that are recorded in a book. To many, history is the remembrances of the people who were there and those memories may be as similar or a: varied as the people themselves.
For many of the communities tioned, all moved, and put neatly
that were once in Hancock County, Log Town, Santa Rosa, Gainesville, Napoleon, Stevenson, and Westonia, the memories of the people who were there are all we have to remind us of what once was a vital part of local life.
In 1961 the people of these towns were asked tp move ... everything ... businesses, homes, their lives to make room for a dynamic new rocket test facility and federal city. But just what' did we give up to gain the John C. Stennis Space Center. ... the answer depends largely on who you ask.
I hadn’t spent much time in the fit.pnniB Ruffpr Zone, other than
place, on new lots in a new plac but still somehow^ strangely out place, never having quite shed tl image that they had been rippi out of their natural surroundings
“It’s strange,” I said. “Isn’t i she said.
“Would you want to take a dri out to the old cemetery,” I aski her. “Sure, I love to go,” she said.
On the way Miss Lillian asked I wanted to go to the black cem tery or the white cemetery. The were two, as there were two se tions of town, blacks living in a sc tion of town called The Point, si said. We started with The Poi and the black cemetery, where h