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Forrest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 78,158. [2] Its county seat and largest city is Hattiesburg. [3] The county was created from Perry County in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The first two counties, Adams County and Pickering County (renamed Jefferson County later), were established in 1799 in the Mississippi Territory. [1] 14 counties, all in the southwest, were created before the Mississippi Territory became a state in 1817. [1] The last county created was Humphreys County in 1918. [2]
Theron Carl Lynd (May 30, 1920– January 31, 1978) was an American circuit clerk and voter registrar in Forrest County, Mississippi, who refused to register Black people during the civil rights movement. [1] [2] Lynd was the first southern voter registrar to be held in violation of charges of discrimination under the Federal Civil Rights Acts.
Rawls Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,202. [3] Rawls Springs is approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northwest of Hattiesburg near U.S. Route 49 and a part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan ...
Police were told a Mississippi man had killed himself in 2018, but five years later, his 75-year-old widow has been arrested and charged with murder in the death. The Forrest County Sheriff's ...
Glendale is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. Glendale is approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Hattiesburg on Mississippi Highway 42 and a part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Glendale had a population of ...
Offices of the sheriff, tax collector, circuit clerk, and chancery clerk were once located on the first floor. The courthouse was used continuously throughout the 20th century, with modifications that included first-floor extensions on each end of the building.
A post office first began operation under the name Brooklyn in 1897. [3] Two of the early settlers, John and Sam Perkins, ran the Perkins Merchandise store and Perkins Ferry on Black Creek. At that time, Black Creek was used to raft logs cut from the pine forests surrounding Brooklyn down to the trade center of Pascagoula.