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Picayune became a lumber and tung-oil center. It was named for a New Orleans newspaper edited by former local resident Eliza Jane Nicholson, who was famed as the poet Pearl Rivers and as a pioneer in opening journalism to women.
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Picayune, Mississippi · United States
