GEORGE COUNTY
Chapter XLV, pages 724-725
In the far southeastern corner of the State,
bordering on Alabama and in the second tier of gulf counties, George is
one of the comparatively recent political divisions of Mississippi. It
was erected March 16, 1910, from parts of Greene and Jackson countties,
and was named in honor of James Z. George, the great Mississippi Commoner.
It has an area of 475 miles, and is bounded
as follows: Greene County and a corner of Perry on the north; Alabama on
the east; Jackson County on the south, and Stone and Perry counties on
the west. Lucedale, an incorporated town of about 650 people, is in the
northeastern part of the county on the Gulf, Mobile & Northern line,
which cuts across the northeastern corner of the county. The county seat
is the largest of the towns, although there are a number of minor places
on the railroad mentioned, as well as on the Pascagoula-Moss Point Northern
railroad, which runs from the gulf region of Jackson County to Lucedale,
where it connects with the Mobile & Ohio system. The most thickly settled
sections of George County have therefore fair railroad connections; its
central and western portions are without them.
The county’s farm property was valued in
the census of 1920 at $2,115,000. Its farmers realized from their crops
$788,000, and they valued their live stock at $454,000. Truck farming is
being considerably developed, the yearly income from vegetables being now
about $300,000. Peaches and apples also do well.
