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Source:  Roland, Cunbar, Mississippi: comprisig sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form, (c) 1907.

Lakeshore, a post-village of Hancock county, situated on the Gulf coast, and a station on the Louisville & Nashville R. R., 7 miles southwest of Bay St. Louis, the county seat. Population in 1900, 50. [p. 21]
 
Logtown, a post-village in the southwestern part of Hancock county, situated near the east bank of the Pearl river, 3 miles north of Pearlington, the nearest banking town, and 18 miles west of Bay St. Louis, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice, an express office, lumber mills, two churches and two stores. Population in 1900, 220 ; in 1906 the population was estimated at 500. [p. 113]
 
Napoleon, a hamlet in the southwestern part of Hancock county, on the Pearl river, 5 miles north of Pearlington, the nearest banking town. The postoffice has been discontinued, and mail now
goes to Huxford. [p. 288]
 
Pearlington, a post-town in the southwestern part of Hancock county, on the Pearl river 10 miles from its mouth, and 40 miles northeast of New Orleans. It takes its name from the river. It has several churches, a good school, and large saw mills. Lumbering is the chief industry. A branch of the Hancock County Bank of Bay St. Louis was established here in 1902. Population in 1900, 850. [p. 380]
 
Pickayune, a station on the New Orleans & North Eastern R. R., in the western part of Hancock county, about 25 miles northwest of Bay St. Louis, the county seat. The Little Hobolo Chitto flows near the town. It has a money order postoffice, a telegraph and express office. The Bank of Pickayune was established here in 1904 with a capital of $50,000. Population in 1906 was estimated at 500. [p. 426}
 
Richardson, a post-hamlet of Hancock county, on the New Orleans & North Eastern R. R., 36 miles northwest of Bay St. Louis, the county seat. Population in 1900, 23. [p. 554]
 
Walkiah, a former postoffice in the western part of Hancock county. Mail now goes to Picayune. [p. 894]
 
Waveland, an incorporated post-town and station of Hancock county, on the Louisville & Nashville R. R., and on Mississippi Sound, 48 miles from New Orleans, and 4 miles from Bay St. Louis, the county seat and nearest banking town. This is a pleasant little watering place with a good hotel, fine sea bathing, and several stores. Population in 1900, 520. [p. 942]