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Lamar
County
LAMAR COUNTY
CHAPTER XLVI, pages 762 - 762
Lamar, which is one of the southeastern
counties of the State, was created March 13, 1904, from the second judicial
district of Marion County and the northern part of Pearl River County.
It received its name in honor of the great man and the Supreme Court Justice
of the United States, L.Q.C. Lamar. It has an undulating surface of 495
square miles and is thus bounded: On the north by Covington, Jefferson
Davis and Forrest counties; on the east by Forrest, south by Pearl River
and west by Marion.
Purvis, the county seat, is a
lumbering town of 900 people, on the line of the New Orleans & North
Eastern railroad, and the county as a whole is located in the long leaf
pine region of the State. Besides the railroad mentioned, a branch of the
Gulf & Ship Island railroad traverses the county from east to west
and the Mississippi Central traverses the southwest corner of the county,
and the Mississippi Central the northeast. Artesian water has been found
at Sumrall, a little incorporated city of 1,400 people on the Mississippi
Central line, as well as at Lumberton, a city of 2,000, at the junction
of the New Orleans & Northeastern and the Gulf & Ship Island roads.
But the growth of these places, although stimulated by the discovery of
good water, is based on their development as lumbering centers. The county
though comparatively new already shows signs of much progress and has a
bright outlook for the future.
The population of Lamar County, according
to the 1920 census, is 12,869, an increase of more than 1,000 for the decade.
It is chiefly a lumber district, and the value of its manufactured products
($4,752,000) was chiefly centered in the output of timber and lumber. Still,
the assessment of its farm property indicated a value of $2,736,000 and
the crops raised in 1919 realized more than $1,000,000 to the support and
profit of the agricultural communities of the county. Its live stock was
valued at $613,000.
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Source:
Mississippi The Heart of the South - By Dunbar Rowland, LL.D - Director
of the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History. Vol.
II Illustrated. Chicago-Jackson; The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Company, 1925. Public Domain
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