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MRS. LOLLIE B. WRIGHT, postmaster of Logtown, Miss., stands in front of the town post office which is scheduled to close Sept. 30. Mrs. Wriglit is retiring after nearly 37 years of service. The post office has served nearly 90 years. It i# 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 mail will be delivered in the future to Pearlington.
THE TIMES PICAYUNE 22 December 1963
Onco Booming Camp in Test Facility Zone
(Special to Th® Tlm«s-Plcayune)
LOGTOWN, Miss.—The picturesque little antique postoffice at Logtown will close its door Sept. 30 after almost 90 years of serv-i ice, 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,
Postoffice Closing, Same Fate in Store for Logtown
[ It has some interesting furnishings, including a little wooden heating stove which has warmed lie office for all these years, rs. Wright’s original commis-ion dated Jan. 17th, 1927 and igned by then President Calvin -oolidgc, about 50 old-fashioned combination lock boxes, and other postal paraphernalia collected p'om the 19th century.
Mrs. Wright was bom at Pearl-inglon and has lived all her life
, ■ ,	..	.	,,	there	and	at	Logtown,	where
put in for retirement recently after ,	,	,	.	5,	’	,	,
______	„	____‘she was educated. She worked in
the store and office of the II.
Weston Lumber Co. from 1918
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 oncc 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 els ready to test the moon vehicles.
MAV UK PRESERVED
until 1927 when she succeeded Mrs. Joe Ilowsc as postmistress on Feb. 1.
THIRD CLASS In those days it was a third
class post office handling a good many hundred pieces of mail daily. It reverted to a fourth class post office in 1930 when the Weston Mill, which dated Irom the late 1880’s, closed down, and J Logtown went into a decline. It; | has still some of the prettiest old
Roy Baxter, who operates thej^om.es south Mississippi, all Pearl River Marina which once i ^es*'nec^ *° %° within months, was the busy II. 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 lias not decided what to do with the building when he moves his marina to Pearlington next spring, but it is possible NASA
In reccnt months activity around the post office has quick-ended as writers and photographers have dropped by to feel, the pulse of the dying community. Mrs. Wright lately has handled only 30 to 50 pieces of mail daily, and kept a lonely vigil, although Baxter’s marina and Sam Whitfield’s pulpwood office are
A mail boat brought the ma twice daily to Logtown from En lish Lookout when Mrs. Wrigl first took over there. This w; discontinued a half dozen yea: later and the mail was broug! in from Bay St. Louis. The mo exciting experience of her lor tenure there was the Feb. 191 flood of the Pearl River whic put a foot of water in the pa office. She handled the mall o of the old Masonic Temph? f< about a week until it subsided.
MIIX CLOSED IN 1030 Mrs. Wright said she had nev< missed a day’s work through i] ness, and had the flag flying ev ry day except when it was rail ing. When she first w’ent thei Logtown had numerous stores, hotel, and a booming mill ar nlaning operation where moi Ilian 500 men worked. Scarcity < the proper kind of timber close the mill in 1930 after almost half century of operations. Th post office reverted to fourt class on July 25, 1930 when Pos master General Walter Brow signed her new commission.
She thinks the . mosquitoes thi year the worst she has ever see on the site. She has no particula plans for retirement, except t move soon from Logtown alon with everyone else. She is mai ricd to Charles E. Wright ani they have one daughter, Mrs John G. Slaven of Picayune, ani twin grandaughters 18 month old.
may buy and preserve the well- nearby and there has been plen-known little structure.	j	ty	of	activity	at	both.