Logtown

Before the sawmills it was Cabanage Latanier, the palmetto camp, and the first owner of record, Jean Baptiste Rousseve, received a 1,000-arpent grant there in 1788. E. G. Goddard of Michigan built the first mill in 1845. Henry Weston founded the H. Weston Lumber Company in 1889, which by one account was the largest lumber company in America, with 1,200 men, over twenty barges and four schooners, and a community of more than 3,000. By 1930 the usable timber was gone. A dummy-line railroad bed and three family cemeteries survive along the Possum Walk Trail.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 2.3 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Crosby Arboretum — 15 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• Fontainebleau State Park — 24 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.
• Chalmette Battlefield — 32 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.

More markers nearby

• Gainesville Volunteers — 2.6 mi
• Napoleon — 3.2 mi
• Indian Village — 4.1 mi
• Original Lone Star Republic — 5.4 mi