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Railroads eye Natchez Brookhaven link to Gulf Coast ports
The article discusses a Mobile to Hattiesburg railroad route likely extending toward Natchez Port Gibson or Vicksburg, instead of Jackson, to connect with Gulf ports Mobile and Gulfport. It notes Brookhaven and Natchez lie along a potential westward path and describes a Good Roads Train visit to Brookhaven with machinery value and officials aboard. It also mentions private efforts by T Hoskins to fund transportation for ex Confederates to the Memphis reunion, plus a note on editorial process at the Windsor Review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moule and
Jackson
Hattiesburg
Toad
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Port Gibson
Natche
Natchez
Mobile
Gulfport
Hamburg
Brookhaven
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
I. C
1. C
New Orleans
R. W. Richardson
The
Good Roads Association
C. D. Harrison
Agricultural Department
Washington
Martin Dodge
United States Department of Agriculture
W. H. Ehrman
Illinois
M.S. Smith
Austin and Western Manufacturing Company
H. E. Bishop
Western Manufacturing Company
Bake Smith
Parsons
Board of Supervisors
Tom Crawford
Menotis Seonlon
T. Hoskins
Times
Democrat
Memphis
Tux Leann
Daughters of the Confederacy
Lylah Ragsdale
Veterans’ Transportation Fund
Hoskins
Sample Road
South
S. C
Mississippi
Oxford
Grenada
McComb
Summit
Central
Richardson
F. F. Becker
Brookhaven Business League