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New Augusta is a town in Perry County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 554 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Perry County. [2] New Augusta is located about two miles south of "Old" Augusta, which was the county seat until 1906.
Perry County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. Until 1906, the county seat was the old town of Augusta, near the center of the county on the east bank of the Leaf River. At Old Augusta, the outlaw James Copeland was executed by hanging on October 30, 1857. [3] Old Augusta remains a small village today.
In the 1850s, Augusta was the site for the trial and hanging of the outlaw James Copeland. [8] In the 1890s, Davis Hawthorne was hanged in Augusta for the murder of his wife. [2] When the Mobile, Jackson, and Kansas City Railroad [9] was constructed 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Augusta, the town was moved to the railroad and developed as New Augusta.
Perry County Courthouse may refer to: Perry County Courthouse (Arkansas), Perryville, Arkansas; Perry County Courthouse (Illinois), Pinckneyville, Illinois; Old Perry County Courthouse (Indiana), Rome, Indiana; Perry County Courthouse (Mississippi), New Augusta, Mississippi, a Mississippi Landmark; Perry County Courthouse (Missouri), Perryville ...
Historically Mississippi may have had a county court in each of its 82 counties but in 2016, Mississippi has just 19 county courts. There are in fact at least five distinct types of non-Federal courts in Mississippi: County courts are created by the state legislature to reduce the workload of circuit courts and chancery courts. Adams County ...
Perry County Courthouse, New Augusta, Mississippi (1904–05) [22] Columbia County Courthouse , [ a ] Magnolia, Arkansas (1905) [ 23 ] Forrest County Courthouse, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (1905–06) [ 24 ]
U.S. Post Office & Court House: Salina: 211 West Iron Avenue: D. Kan. 1938–? Now the Smoky Hill Museum. n/a U.S. Court House & Post Office: Topeka: 5th & Kansas Ave. D. Kan. United States Circuit Court: 1884–1932 1884–1912 Razed in 1933. n/a U.S. Post Office and Court House † Topeka: 424 Kansas Street: D. Kan. 1933–1977 Still in use ...
US 98 / MS 198 begins – Lucedale, New Augusta: Southern terminus of northern segment; interchange; eastern terminus of Beaumont segment of MS 198; south end of MS 198 overlap: Beaumont: 34.6: 55.7: MS 198 west – New Augusta: North end of MS 198 overlap: Richton: 47.3: 76.1: MS 42 west – Hattiesburg: South end of MS 42 overlap: 47.7: 76.8 ...