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Ellisville, The county seat of Jones county, is an incorporated post-town on the New Orleans & North Eastern R. R., 80 miles southeast of Jackson, and 7 miles by rail southwest of Laurel. It is situated in a farming, stock raising and lumbering district. Large quantities of naval stores are manufactured here. It has four lumber mills. Its situation on Tallahala river gives it excellent water power and facilities for driving logs. It has several churches, a high school, express and telegraph office, two banks and one newspaper. The Merchants and Manufacturers Bank was established in 1902 with a capital of $30,000; the Bank of Ellisville was established in 1894 with a capital of $30,000. The News and the New South, both Democratic weeklies, the former established in 1892, and the latter in 1888, consolidated in 1905. The paper is now "The New South News," with J. F. Parker, editor. The population of the town has grown very rapidly within recent years, and it has developed into a prosperous manufacturing and shipping point. Population in 1890 was 961, which had increased to 1,899 in 1900. The town was named for Powhatan Ellis, member of the Supreme Court and United States Senator. (Vol. I, p. 685)
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