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Feb. lk9 18U6 -
HancjofiXuPounty^Repre s en t a t i ve introd^^eAwbilUXor., Gainesville to have 8b Hancock^Count^rCotirt^HousSfiniBteatf^pf .^hlaldsborough which was passed per report in Feb. 21 issue.1
Feb. 21, 181+6 -
At least partial clearance of Pearl^River permitted steamer Hentoria, Capt. A. P. Boardman, to go up as far as Jieai^getown and return with 311 bales of cotton.
^cBlllHpassed''Mississippi~Legislature-*f or Gainesville to have f Cdunty:~ppurt -House with Hancock County paying-one-third of cost.
A facetious editorial but reflecting fast growth of Gainesville as a sawmill town featured it as a "fine place for single ladies" since there were three dozen assorted bachelors there.
March 21, 18U6 -
Gainesville incorporation was approved.IfaixKk
March 28, 18U8 -
There was much re "westward to Orggon."
April it, 181+6 -
At that day’s election of first officers for Gainesville, the following were elected:
April-11, 18U6 -
Slaves Tony and Peter who had murdered their Overseer, then escaped from Shieldsboiu/agh Jail, tut recaptured in New Orleans with locally respected white citizen R. G. Stevenson who was taking them up the Mississippi River for re-sale, fully reported.
Second hotel at Gainesville vesides the "GaTnesvlTle Hotel" opened April *+ as the tlPearl River Hoi^rse."- The "Say^St,- Louis Hotel" at Shieldsborough also advertised. Significant is' the reference to accommodations for horses, as to feed as well as housing.
May 2, l8*+6 -
"Commercial Review" edited by J. D. 3. ce £>ov began advertising at subscriptions of $5 per annum.
President Select Men
J. P. Sherwood Gardner Holcomb
L. Y. Folsom James Smith C. H. Fra^ar
May 9, 181+6 -
>•5cultural prospects in area to '.n't, Grapes, Forests products,