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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.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
MS 29 begins in Stone County at an interchange between MS 26 (W Central Avenue) and MS 149 (Magnolia Drive) in Wiggins.It heads north concurrent (overlapped) with MS 149 and they head straight up through the center of downtown for several blocks before MS 29 splits off and heads east through neighborhoods along E Hatten Avenue.
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 ...
As of the census [6] of 2000, there were 977 people, 387 households, and 270 families residing in the town. The population density was 280.6 inhabitants per square mile (108.3/km 2).
The remote location of Mahned Bridge, several miles from the small town of New Augusta, made it a favorite gathering spot among college and high school students for star gazing and other activities. In September 1993, the vehicle of Angela Freeman, age 17, was found abandoned at Mahned Bridge.