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Logtown Cemetery and Possum Walk
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In the early 1900's, Logtown had 2,000-3,000 residents and included a two-story general store, company offices, homes built in rustic versions of the popular Queen Anne style, a public school with classes through 12th grade, several wooden churches, boarding houses for loggers, and the Hancock County Bank. Heavy boat traffic on the river coming from New Orleans brought mail delivery twice daily. In 1964, NASA relocated Logtown because of its proximity to the rocket engine test facility. Twelve graves from Gainesville Cemetery were reinterred in Logtown Cemetery, where among 435 graves are aboveground mausoleums, Woodmen of the World markers, and the oldest grave, dated 1853, of Florence Louise Hoffman, which was reinterred from Gainesville Cemetery. The oldest original grave is Leonard Kimball W_(last name illegible), who perished in 1868. Possum Walk was an African-American town site on the north side of the Bogue Homa, connected to Logtown by a ferry crossing to the settlement of freed slaves, and many sawmill employees were of African descent.
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