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Chapter XVII To Partition or not to Partition - There is No Question:	the premature birth of Pearl
County and its return to the womb for further further gestation. A railroad in the North.. 478
Chapter XVI11 The Coast in the '80s:	the railroad
brings growth..................................... 508
Chapter XIX The Nineties - Gay and Otherwise....................... 547
Chapter XX When Lumber Was King: The world's largest
sawmill........................................... 619
Chapter XXI Growth and Divestation of Northern Hancock
County at the Turn of the Century:	The	N.O.
&	N.E. corridor is taken from Hancock County. 651
Chapter XXII The Twentieth Century Dawns on the Coast:
Mississippi's first oil well; oysters and the border dispute with Louisiana; Bay St. Louis burns ............................................ 683
Chapter XXIII The Decline and Fall of the Primeval Forest I: Growth of Lumbering at Logtown and Kiln; Kiln becomes a sawmill town; the State prohibition era ............................................................... 754
Chapter XXIV The Temperate Teens: World War I...................... 782
Chapter XXV The Decline and fall of the Primeval Forest II:
The final golden years of the lumber mills .. 819
Chapter XXVI The Roaring Twenties: bridging the bay................ 831
Chapter XXVII After the Ball was Over:	The Great Depression
and Recovery...................................... 878
Chapter XXVIII Rural Hancock county after the Lumber Era.... 924
Chapter XXIX Through War and Storm:	World	War	II	and	the
1947 hurricane.................................... 943
Chapter XXX Rural Hancock County at mid-Twentieth Century.983
Chapter XXXI The Mid-Twentieth Century: new bridge over the
bay; praline capitol; centennial celebration.1014
Chapter XXXII Entering the Space Age:	NASA razes the Pearl
River towns; Port Bienville Industrial Park;
The genesis of Diamondhead........................ 1057
Chapter XXXIII Camille! The end of an era.......................... 1084
Chapter XXXIV Resurrection:	recovery	from disaster; the
testing of rocket engines evolves into a multi-agency science center ...................... 1119
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