{"id":1462,"slug":"logtown-logtown-mississippi","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Logtown stood near the mouth of the Pearl River in Hancock County, and its name was literal: the town existed to cut logs. Before the 1850s the surrounding old-growth forest yielded planks thirty inches wide, and by 1873 a dozen mills worked the river's mouth. Consolidation followed the timber. By 1893 a single operator, the Weston Lumber Company, held the sawmills, the stores, the dummy-line railroad, and the ships that carried lumber down the coast."]},{"heading":"Documented history","paragraphs":["Logtown reached its peak around 1918, when the Pearl River's banks carried stacks of lumber, drying kilns, and mill sheds. The Weston company reforested some of its own land but still cut through the reachable forest; the mill halted production in 1930 and its commissary closed in 1958, by which point the town had dwindled to a handful of homes.","What remained was bought by the federal government in the early 1960s: the townsite fell inside the buffer zone assembled for the Stennis Space Center, and the last residents were displaced as NASA's rocket-testing perimeter took over the western half of the county. The community survives as a recorded site — a cemetery, foundations, and the heritage documentation the Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area maintains — inside land the rockets made off-limits to settlement."]}],"name":"Logtown","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN","DISPLACED_COMMUNITY"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Ghost town in Logtown; research record.","full_desc":"Logtown is a ghost town in Logtown, Mississippi. Ghost town in Logtown; research record. It sits in the archive under ghost towns and displaced communities. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":null,"city":"Logtown","county":"Hancock County","state":"Mississippi","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":30.42464,"lon":-89.41779,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Discovery pass. Precise location, historical chronology and current visitor conditions require independent enrichment. Confidence concerns provenance only.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":55,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Weston Mill closed in 1930. Federal acquisition in the early 1960s placed the remaining community in the Stennis Space Center buffer zone. Logtown's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Historic Logtown' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Historic Logtown","url":"https://msgulfcoastheritage.ms.gov/historic/sites/historic-logtown/","publisher":"Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area / Mississippi Department of Marine Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Historic Logtown","url":"https://msgulfcoastheritage.ms.gov/historic/sites/historic-logtown/","publisher":"Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area / Mississippi Department of Marine Resources","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}