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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 Main 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 MitchellX (an engineer at the mill), Henry Ha11^(manager of the commissary), the Park View Hotel, Roy Baxter^ (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 visable), the homes of Dr. Mead, Tom Casonova and another Casanova family^ J^he Logtown Cemetery. In front of the cemetery were the homes of Givens Parker and Noah Fountain, M.D., Immediately east of the cemetery on land now enclosed in the cemetery, stood the Logtown


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