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River
boundary was the Apalachicola River in Florida.
ATTEMPTS WERE MADE to include all of West Florida in Mississippi, while interests in Louisiana wanted it all in their state. Some pushed for formation of a new state.
A compromise was struck with Mississippi, which got the territory from the East Pearl to the present Missis-sippi-Alabama line.
The portion that went to Louisiana still carries the name today of the “Florida Parishes.”
Before the United States took over West Florida in 1810, the area was largely a no-man’s land where law and order did not exist.
But the prosperity of the towns along the river continued for years, until the coming of the railroads. The rails provided an alternate route to the interior and railroad towns boomed.
THE LOtllSVILLE AND Nashville Railroad, which passed several miles to the south of Pearlington, was completed in the mid-1800s, and the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad provided a northern route out of New Orleans.
■	The railroads resulted in population shifts, but the timber industry kept Gainesville and Logtown important commercial centers until well after the turn of the century.
Sawmill and brick businesses flourished in the 1870s and 1880s. Brick and lumber were shipped by schooner to New Orleans and other points. Much of the building materials used in New Orleans at that time came from Gainesville.
The Poitevent and Favre Lumber Co. was organized at Pearlington after the Civil War, with two brothers-in-law building the world’s largest sawmill.
The sawmill provided lumber for the great New Orleans Exposition held in the late 1880s.
CAPT. JOHN POITEVENT’S family had a palatial home in Pearlington, and the “Lumber King of the South” became prominent socially in New Orleans and was king of Carnival in 1892.
Daily boat service for passengers and freight between towns along the East Pearl and New Orleans was provided for years.
And, after Mississippi outlawed liquor in 1908, several floating barrooms popped up on the St. Tammany side of the river. Two of the more famous ones were known as the Blue Goose and the Freeman Saloon.