To provide communication between Mobile and New Orleans, a telegraph line was completed in 1848. The telegraph was attached to posts and trees across the Piney Woods region of Jackson, Harrison, and Hancock Counties to Pearlington and then to New Orleans. The trail that developed alongside the line became known as the Wire Road and stretched across what is now a portion of Stone County. A new telegraph line completed in 1870 along the New Orleans to Mobile railroad rendered the Wire Road obsolete.