HATTIESBURG  , a

city and the county-seat of Forrest county, Mississippi, U.S.A., on the Hastahatchee (or Leaf) river, about 90 m . S.E. of Jackson . Pop . (1890) 1172; (1900) 4175 (1687 negroes) ; (1910) 11,733 . Hattiesburg is served by the Gulf & . Ship Island, the Mississippi Central, the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago and the New Orleans & North Eastern railways . The officers and employees of the Gulf & Ship Island railway own and maintain a hospital here . The city is in a rich farming, truck-gardening and lumbering country . Among its manufactures are lumber (especially yellow-pine), wood-alcohol, turpentine, paper and pulp, fertilizers, wagons, mattresses and machine-shop products . Hattiesburg was founded about 1882 and was named in honour of the wife of W . H . Hardy, a railway official, who planned a town at the intersection of the New Orleans & North-Eastern (which built a round house and repair shops here in 1885) and the Gulf & Ship Island railways .

The latter railway was opened from Gulfport to Hattiesburg in

January 1897, and from Hattiesburg to Jackson in September 1900 . Hattiesburg was incorporated as a town in 1884 and was chartered as a city in 1899 . Formerly the " court house " of the second judicial district of Perry county, Hattiesburg became on the 1st of January 1908 the county-seat of Forrest county, erected from the W. part of Perry county .