Blountville, Mississippi

Prentiss, Mississippi

Jefferson Davis County

Population: 

Town incorporated:  3-3-1903

Post office: Blountville 7-3-1879 to 4-15-1903

                    Prentiss 4-16-1903 to present

Railroads: P&LR- MSC- ICG

Next Town East- Shepherd

 

Milepost 44.2 after 1927

(from Hattiesburg)

 

Next Town West- Whitesand

1915 soil survey map

1970 USGS topo map

Map by Tony Howe

HISTORY by Tony Howe: 

INDUSTRY-

Duquesney Lumber Co.- pine lumber mill cutting 20,000 ft/day listed on Freight Circular No 21-L List of Sawmills and Planing Mills on Mississippi Central RR Nov. 1, 1919.

E. E. & E. R. Lovell- pine lumber mill cutting 25,000 ft/day listed on Freight Circular No 21-L List of Sawmills and Planing Mills on Mississippi Central RR Nov. 1, 1919.

Pearson Lumber Co.- pine lumber mill cutting 25,000 ft/day listed on Freight Circular No 21-L List of Sawmills and Planing Mills on Mississippi Central RR Nov. 1, 1919.   

 

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