Bay St. Louis, Pearlington and Gainesville, Hancock County, Mississippi. 1891
Bay St. Louis, Hancock County
Bay St. Louis, the seat of justice of Hancock County, is located in the
southeastern part of the county, on the Louisville & Nashville railway, and on
the shore of Mississippi Sound. It has a population of twenty-two hundred, and
is a prosperous and pleasant little city, popular among health and pleasure
seekers of the South.
Pearlington Hancock County
Pearlington, on Pearl River, was intended by its founders to become a place of
much commercial importance, and they dedicated a large area of land for the
purpose of building up a city. That was in the old territorial days, and
Pearlington for a time had a small boom. Its population is now eight hundred and
fifty.
Gainesville Hancock
Gainesville, farther tip the Pearl River, has a population of two hundred and
twenty-seven.
Back to: Mississippi Counties, Cities and Towns, 1891
Source: Biographical and Historical Memories of Mississippi, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891
