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HATTIESBURG
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Forrest county, See also:Mississippi, U.S.A., on the Hastahatchee (or See also:Leaf) See also:river, about 90 m
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S.E. of See also:Jackson
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Pop
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(1890) 1172; (1900) 4175 (1687 negroes) ; (1910) 11,733
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Hattiesburg is served by the Gulf &
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See also:Ship See also:Island, the Mississippi Central, the New See also: The latter railway was opened from Gulfport to Hattiesburg in See also:January 1897, and from Hattiesburg to Jackson in See also:September 1900 . Hattiesburg was incorporated as a town in 1884 and was chartered as a city in 1899 . Formerly the " See also:court house " of the second judicial See also:district of See also:Perry county, Hattiesburg became on the 1st of January 1908 the county-seat of Forrest county, erected from the W. See also:part of Perry county . |
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