Pinehills Neighborhood

Pinehills began as a federal experiment. The Resettlement Administration built it as one of five industrial communities in Mississippi, meant for industrial workers living on the edges of cities and towns. The Living New Deal files the site under the New Deal's housing programs and lists 24 frame clapboard units, finished around 1935 at $3,152 each, though other counts run higher and construction dates run from 1934 to 1937. Mississippi's state archives say some of the original buildings still stand.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Longleaf Trace — 2.6 mi
  A 44-mile paved rail-trail from Hattiesburg to Prentiss on the old Pearl & Leaf Rivers and Mississippi Central line that hauled the Piney Woods timber.
• Mount Zion Baptist Church — 2.6 mi
  Hattiesburg's "Civil Rights Church," a Freedom School site in 1964 where Pete Seeger taught music and Martin Luther King Jr. spoke weeks before his death.
• Hub City Historic District — 3.1 mi
  Hattiesburg's twelve-block downtown, a railroad town laid out in 1880s pine country, with the Saenger Theater, the courthouse and the 1910 depot.
• Forrest County Courthouse and Dahmer Memorial — 3.2 mi
  The courthouse where Hattiesburg held Freedom Day on January 22, 1964, and where a memorial now honors Vernon Dahmer, killed by Klansmen in 1966.

More markers nearby

• John L. Sullivan — 0.5 mi
• Bonhomie — 1.3 mi
• William Carey College — 1.4 mi
• Craig Wiseman — 1.7 mi