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U.S. government. The Chalon place is better remembered as Palmetto Plantation. However, with the advent of timber	harvesting, the
landing became more and more	popular for the
landing of logs and hence	came the name
Logtown. In 1828, Mr. Chalon sold his land rights to Judge D. R. Wingate.
The Main	Street	(which was then	surfaced
with plank)	still	runs	eastward	from the
river for about two	miles	to where	it joins
with the road built over the old Indian trail that ran from the site of present day Pearlington along the high ground to the Gulf of Mexico, (now Mississippi Highway 604).	*
To the	north	and	parallel	to Mai.^„^
Street run the waters of Bogahoma Bayou which $ once was the dividing line	between Logtown^- ''
and the negro settlement of Possom Walk.
As we proceed eastward from the river, along the north (left) side of Main Street stood the homes of Frank Mitchell (engineer), Henry Hall (manager of the commissary), the Park View Hotel, Roy Baxter (only the steps remain), an auto repair shop, the jail and court house, Sid Otis (son of the mill V.P.), Horatio Weston (president of the mill - palm trees are still^isable), the homes of Dr. ^ Mead, Tom Casonova and another	Casanova
family, and the Logtown Cemetery. In front of the cemetery were the homes of Givens Parker and Noah Fountain, M.D.. Immediate! east of the cemetery on land now enclosed inf w the cemetery, stood the Logtown school house. Next, along the street came the homes of George Summers, and George Davis.	The Coney •
Weston home (photo in this book),	was next.
The D.iR. Wingate - Henry Weston - Asa Weston home ajoined. It was a handsome, twelve room plantation type cottage, surrounded by giant oaks, sweet olive, wax myrtle, camellias and palmettos and was occupied by his decendant, Lamar Otis, in 1962, (photo in this book). David Weston built "Sunshine Cottage" next


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