Centennial of Hattiesburg

[West Side]

Formerly Choctaw Territory and later claimed by France, Britain, Spain and United States, this area entered by settlers in early 1800s and known as Ewin Forks, later Gordonville. Chosen as rail center by Captain William H. Hardy in 1880 ...

Old Hattiesburg High School

Under the direction of Principal J.T. Wallace, this building was Hattiesburg's High School from 1922 to 1959. Built in 1911, the structure acquired its present form when enlarged and remodeled in 1921 to the designs of Robert E. Lee, the ...

Hattiesburg

The Hub City

[Southeast]:

"...I was returning from the trip and

had reached the banks of a beautiful

piney woods stream...during July or

perhaps August 1800."

"...I then, and there, determined to

locate a station here because it was the

place where cross the New Orleans and

Northeastern, I ...