Crosby

The town took its name from lumbermen. In 1935 the three Crosby brothers, working from their father's timber business, bought the Foster Creek Lumber Company in Stephenson, renamed the town and formed Crosby Lumber and Manufacturing. A sister company made turpentine, rosin and resin from pine stumps left on cutover land. In World War II German prisoners of war built creosote plants here and in Picayune that treated telephone poles and pilings for New Orleans, and the family's Picayune company twice won the Army-Navy E Award. St. Regis Paper bought the lumber company in 1965.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Homochitto National Forest — 11 mi
  A 191,839-acre national forest in seven southwest Mississippi counties, replanted by the Civilian Conservation Corps, with Clear Springs and the 1,075-acre Okhissa Lake.
• Grand Village of the Natchez Indians — 25 mi
  The Natchez capital on St. Catherine Creek, where the Great Sun lived, with two mounds rebuilt to the shape the French recorded in 1723.
• Melrose Estate — 26 mi
  A Greek Revival estate in Natchez, now a National Park Service site, interpreted through the people who were enslaved there as well as the McMurran family.
• Forks of the Road — 27 mi
  The 1832-1863 slave market a mile east of downtown Natchez, the second busiest in the Deep South, now a Natchez National Historical Park site with exhibit panels.

More markers nearby

• Camp Van Dorn — 14 mi
• Henry Dee and Charles Moore — 16 mi
• The Birthplace of C Spire — 17 mi
• Liberty — 17 mi