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HATTIESBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HATTIESBURG , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Forrest county, See also:Mississippi, U.S.A., on the Hastahatchee (or See also:Leaf) See also:river, about 90 m. S.E. of See also:Jackson. Pop. (1890) 1172; (1900) 4175 (1687 negroes) ; (1910) 11,733. Hattiesburg is served by the Gulf &. See also:Ship See also:Island, the Mississippi Central, the New See also:Orleans, See also:Mobile & See also:Chicago and the New Orleans & See also:North Eastern See also:railways. The See also:officers and employees of the Gulf & Ship Island railway own and maintain a See also:hospital here. The city is in a See also:rich farming, See also:truck-gardening and lumbering See also:country. Among its manufactures are See also:lumber (especially yellow-See also:pine), See also:wood-See also:alcohol, See also:turpentine, See also:paper and pulp, fertilizers, wagons, mattresses and See also:machine-See also:shop products. Hattiesburg was founded about 1882 and was named in See also:honour of the wife of W. H. See also:Hardy, a railway See also:official, who planned a See also:town at the intersection of the New Orleans & North-Eastern (which built a See also:round See also:house and repair shops here in 1885) and the Gulf & Ship Island railways.

The latter railway was opened from Gulfport to Hattiesburg in See also:

January 1897, and from Hattiesburg to Jackson in See also:September 1900. Hattiesburg was incorporated as a town in 1884 and was chartered as a city in 1899. Formerly the " See also:court house " of the second judicial See also:district of See also:Perry county, Hattiesburg became on the 1st of January 1908 the county-seat of Forrest county, erected from the W. See also:part of Perry county.

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