The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-03-22

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Rtos moved 70 ns~acfe naeif. aas-
ing hNseht fae wupsrAx ffusn
Thomas Fletcher ~ usnnlon csn.
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esR rtsef was changed 81 RtceS
nryv which nAtne Il boex foF bali
8 ernHfrx Ahcat dse cpNning of
the CIVIL War ar Rice ieAse4 10
Thomas G~aaa~Af. 81 North CAfo-
ira. E landing on the river Tor =
suTpexttste ssh which nss latter
operated with slave labor until ire
ch@r o. me waf One q thene
slaves Ahrah4m Galloway. hvec for
naofe than f6sfy years after tse
cosnine q fgeeaom and lies bUFted m
q lonely grave on hn little hcaaae-
stead Jass hark Of Red Hili Church
Prom the close az the tnrpensine
xtln aaaa after The war. NO par
ucnlnr industry "a carrted on nj
this place. though . ferry wns main
tanned across the river and . land
lne w2s maintained. where river
beats left freight N a warehouse
The property passed from the hands
Of u c Rtce about 1871 70 Isaac
Rnrehand. ard then IN snccexsasn %
Daniel Entrektn. Calvin Taylor.
Eraoen sSsmrnI1. Alfred Broom. Jud-
son Perry and n r wcodlnan Inc
latter sold hts claim g William
Brrwtnn. OF Brewtoo. Alabama. vho
established . saw min about 1898.
and gave the plAsx HIS nun fsame.
which n has borne until This day
For about q dozen years BreWtan
vas q thriving saw min village Mr.
Brcuton and his brother -in-lau. y
s Skinner. sold the property 10 Geo
s LeaEheFbury. Jr. and moved "a
the new town Of iAcedale, Mr.
Leatherbury. after futile attempts 70
change the mans Of the village 20
Klondyke, after the gold fields al
Alaska. sold his interest 20 Turner
and Ashley. who constructed the
more substantial homes en- the hlli
The property passed into the hands
leased II 70 John d Gray. under
whose administration the min
burned. W. p. Furry snd Wynn Nc
MILAN replaced the mir and on
tinued operations for a few years.
J. c. Manning taking the place Of
Mr.. Mcmillan. TTae failure Of the
Scranton State Bank In 1909 and
changing conditions an the lumber
business made II knpoasible for the
saw mill 10 c~ontin1e. II was burned
= few months later and the prop
erty wal bought by the Dantzler
Company. No effort was made 20
replace the min, but the Aog chute
Was used for getting the company
timber into the river for several
years.
After the burning OF the mil. the
village. which had been : bee hive
Of activity for several years. with q
store. postoffloe. school and church.
began 10 80 dowa. No more new
hosnes were built and those that
sere there. having been sold by the
nMntRies COMPANY ~nTm soEst cnwn
and moved away. by 1918 Il was
entirely deserted. and a writer said.
concerning IL. To-day there IL little
left 70 show its former prosperity
Not q single inhabltant. = few dis
mantled houses out Of the great