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Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Forrest. Associated ZIP codes: 39401, 39402, 39403, 39404, 39406, 39407.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The Golden Eagles (3-5, 2-2 Sun Belt) play the James Madison Dukes (7-2, 4-2 Sun Belt) Thursday at 7 p.m. at Renasant Stadium.
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With the seventh overall pick, the Birds selected center fielder Eric Booth Jr. out of Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
City and county leaders celebrated the completion of a project Monday, which included repaving Classic Drive, adding a multi-use pathway and preparing nearby...
The Hattiesburg Fire Training Academy is now accepting applications for its next recruit class, WDAM 7's Delaney Dukes suits up, and gives a first hand look...
Hattiesburg High School recognized its seniors Friday as they prepare to take the next step into young adulthood.
Global peace runners making their way throughout all 50 states stopped in Hattiesburg to share a message of peace.
William Carey University and Pearl River Community College teamed up Wednesday to provide free haircuts to students, faculty and staff at William Carey Unive...
“$604 million was spent directly in our economy. That’s a $914 million economic impact just for Hattiesburg, and it supports more than 7,000 jobs,” Vis...
UPDATE: The National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center have pulled the “ENHANCED RISK” (Level 3) further south than earlier this morning. Storm...
THE LATEST: The overnight run of the models has been more aggressive than the last couple of days, as they are trying to move the severe weather threat furth...
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s election as the state’s first Black governor marks a historic milestone for Nevada and for a large part of the count...
Many voters in Mississippi's close Senate race said they were caught by surprise when they learned they would have to vote by affidavit because their registr...
With 99% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, DeSoto County went blue, backing Democrat nominee Scott Colom over incumbent Republican Senator Cind...
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Hattiesburg is in Forrest County, Mississippi.
Region: Mississippi Gulf Coast
39401, 39402, 39403, 39404, 39406, 39407
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford’s election as the state’s first Black governor marks a historic milestone for Nevada and for a large part of the count...
Many voters in Mississippi's close Senate race said they were caught by surprise when they learned they would have to vote by affidavit because their registr...
With 99% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, DeSoto County went blue, backing Democrat nominee Scott Colom over incumbent Republican Senator Cind...
Hattiesburg, "the Hub City," was named by a railroad builder for his wife. The area, once Choctaw land ceded in the 1805 Treaty of Mount Dexter, was settled in the early 1800s where the Leaf and Bouie rivers meet, and was known as Twin Forks or Ewin Forks and later Gordonville. Civil engineer Captain William H. Hardy chose it as a rail junction, in 1880 according to the city's marker or 1882 according to Wikipedia; Hardy recalled reaching "a beautiful piney woods stream" in July or August 1882 and deciding to put a station where his line from the Gulf Coast would cross the New Orleans and Northeastern, and to name it for his wife, Hattie Lott Hardy. The town was incorporated in 1884 with about 400 residents.
The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad was built through town in 1884, and the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, finished after 20 years of work, set off a lumber boom in 1897 and made Hattiesburg the hub of south Mississippi's yellow pine industry; by 1911 it was the state's fourth-largest city. It took the nickname Hub City in a newspaper contest in 1912. Camp Shelby, nearby, was important in both world wars, and the University of Southern Mississippi and William Carey University grew here. Hattiesburg was a center of the civil rights movement. Mount Zion Baptist Church, the "Civil Rights Church," hosted a Freedom School in 1964, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke there on March 19, 1968. On January 10, 1966, Klansmen attacked the home of Vernon Dahmer, a farmer, businessman and former NAACP leader who urged, "if you don't vote, you don't count"; he died defending his family, and several Klansmen were later convicted. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Hattiesburg (City of Hattiesburg centennial monument) The Historical Marker Database: "The Civil Rights Church"; Vernon F. Dahmer, Sr. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) Wikipedia: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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