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Gainesville Pearl River lumber port
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: large cents, stoneware, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
about 1790-1918 cotton and lumber river port
A Pearl River port that began around 1790 as Cottonport, became Gainesville under an 1810 Spanish grant, and grew with the large Pearl River Lumber Company from 1832, serving briefly as county seat. Railroads bypassed it and it shrank to 227 people by 1900; NASA took the land in the 1960s for Stennis Space Center.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
restricted federal facilitySwamp, alligators
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