Copiah County is a county located in the state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population is 28,757. Its county seat is Hazlehurst⁶. Image File history File links Public domain map courtesy of The General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, modified to show counties. ... Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ... A U.S. state is any one of the 50 states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia, form the United States of America. ... State nickname: Magnolia State Other U.S. States Capital Jackson Largest city Jackson Governor Haley Barbour (R) Official languages English Area 125,546 km² (32nd)  - Land 121,606 km²  - Water 3,940 km² (3%) Population (2000)  - Population 2,697,243 (31st)  - Density 23. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A county seat is a town which is the capital of a county. ... Hazlehurst is a city located in Copiah County, Mississippi. ... The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ...

Copiah, from an Indian word meaning calling panther, was organized in 1823 as Mississippi's 18th county. It ranks seventh in land area. In the year of organization, Walter Leake served as governor and James Monroe as President of the United States.

The county is known as a tomato and cabbage producing area, and for many years was called the "Tomato Capital of the World."

Albert Gallatin Brown, the 14th governor of Mississippi, was elected from Copiah County, serving from 1844-48.

Hazlehurst began as the town of Gallatin when two lawyers and brothers-in-law named Walters and Saunders arrived from Gallatin, TN, in 1819, and built their homes on the banks of the Bayou Pierre in the western part of the county. Other settlers came with them an in 1829 the legislature incorporated the town. The incorporation charter was repealed on January 18th, 1862. November 3, 1865, Hazlehurst began with the building of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad.

As Hazlehurst grew, Gallatin declined into just a settlement at a crossroads. In April, 1872, the legislature ordered the county board of supervisors to hold an election to decide if the county seat should moved from Gallatin to Hazlehurst. A majority voted for the change and Gallatin's old brick courthouse was torn down and reassembled in Hazlehurst. Several years later, a new courthouse replaced this building after it was ravaged by fire.

The town was named for George Hazlehurst, an engineer for the new railroad. Moses Marx was the first town merchant, and A. Mangold, who came here as a newsboy on the first train, later opened a store that became one of the largest in the county. The Merchants and Planters Bank opened in 1882, with Major R. W. Millsaps as president and I. N. Ellis as first cashier.

In 1820, the area was known as the S. K. Hawkins Plantation. Hawkins came from South Carolina and built a brick two-story home and a plantation store. In the early 1890s, this plantation became property of H. H. Barlow after Hawkins lost it to a mortgage foreclosure. A post office was opened and named Barlow. An oil mill operated in Barlow for ten years, and at one time, the town had ten stores, but most of the stores closed as Hazlehurst drained the trade.

When the railroad built through a nearby area in 1857, the settlement was called Bahala. Shortly after the Civil War, the town name was changed to Beauregard for General Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. As a lumber town, it was listed as one of the most promising towns between New Orleans and Memphis and had state-wide notoriety for its size and number of saloons.

The tornado struck the town in 1883 leaving only three homes standing. One was the estate of Benjamin King, a lawyer from Gallatin who ran for governor on the Greenback ticket in 1880 and promoted the construction of the expensive courthouse in Gallatin to protect his property rights from the railroad-made population changes. Another house was that of Judge Harvey Thompson and the third was that of Dr. E. A. Rowan. It had 23 rooms and, in 1881, was intended for a hospital but was later made into a private home.

Four sudden deaths in the Rowan family were responsible for stories that the house was haunted. The story was expanded until it included a reward for anyone who would spend a night alone in the place. A series of regular, yet mysterious, flaggings of Illinois Central trains in front of the house in 1926 grew so annoying that special detectives were called in but they never found the cause of the flaggings.

Soon after the indians relinquished their claims to this land in 1819 and the legislature formed Copiah County in 1823, Elisha Lott, a Methodist minister who had worked among the indians, brought his family from Hancock County to the present site of Crystal Springs. Shortly after he built grist and saw mills, other settlers arrived, and the place became known as Coor Springs. Joe Moore donated land for the church and cemetery. Soon a schoolhouse was built. When the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad built in the area in 1858, a new town was created about a mile and a half west of the old settlemnt. The new settlement took the name Crystal Springs and the old settlement became Old Crystal Springs.

William J. Willing's home was the first to be built in the new town, and Jefferson Davis once made a speech from the front yard. Ozious Osborne owned the first merchandise store on a corner of his residence lot on south Jackson Street. This lot later became the Merchants Grocery Company's site.

The first church was the Methodist is 1860. It was followed by the Baptist in 1861, Presbyterian in 1870 and Trinity Episcopal in 1882.

As one of one of the largest tomato shipping centers, Crystal Springs commercial farming goes back to 1870 when the first shipment of peaches, grown by James Sturgis was shipped to New Orleans and Chicago markets. Tomatoes were still known as "love apples" when N. Pizza imported seeds from Italy, and with help from S. H. Stackhouse, began scientific cultivation of tomato plants. With the help of German immigrant Augustus Lotterhos, the industry achieved success. In 1878, Lotterhos pooled the products of a number of tomato growers and shipped the first boxcar load to Denver, Colorado.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,019 km² (779 mi²). 2,011 km² (777 mi²) of it is land and 7 km² (3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.36% water. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about the unit of measure. ...

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there are 28,757 people, 10,142 households, and 7,494 families residing in the county. The population density is 14/km² (37/mi²). There are 11,101 housing units at an average density of 6/km² (14/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 47.80% White, 50.95% Black or African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.46% from other races, and 0.54% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Race (U.S. Census) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

There are 10,142 households out of which 34.40% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.70% are married couples living together, 20.10% have a female householder with no husband present, and 26.10% are non-families. 23.60% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.30% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.71 and the average family size is 3.20. Marriage is a relationship and bond between individuals that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ...

In the county the population is spread out with 26.90% under the age of 18, 12.50% from 18 to 24, 26.80% from 25 to 44, 21.10% from 45 to 64, and 12.70% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 92.90 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.10 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $26,358, and the median income for a family is $31,079. Males have a median income of $28,763 versus $20,104 for females. The per capita income for the county is $12,408. 25.10% of the population and 22.00% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 33.20% of those under the age of 18 and 21.20% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the number of people. ... The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Cities and towns

• Beauregard
• Crystal Springs
• Georgetown
• Hazlehurst
• Wesson

Regions of Mississippi
The Delta - Natchez District
Largest cities
Biloxi - Greenville - Gulfport - Hattiesburg - Jackson - Meridian - Pascagoula - Southaven - Tupelo - Vicksburg
Counties
Adams - Alcorn - Amite - Attala - Benton - Bolivar - Calhoun - Carroll - Chickasaw - Choctaw - Claiborne - Clarke - Clay - Coahoma - Copiah - Covington - De Soto - Forrest - Franklin - George - Greene - Grenada - Hancock - Harrison - Hinds - Holmes - Humphreys - Issaquena - Itawamba - Jackson - Jasper - Jefferson - Jefferson Davis - Jones - Kemper - Lafayette - Lamar - Lauderdale - Lawrence - Leake - Lee - Leflore - Lincoln - Lowndes - Madison - Marion - Marshall - Monroe - Montgomery - Neshoba - Newton - Noxubee - Oktibbeha - Panola - Pearl River - Perry - Pike - Pontotoc - Prentiss - Quitman - Rankin - Scott - Sharkey - Simpson - Smith - Stone - Sunflower - Tallahatchie - Tate - Tippah - Tishomingo - Tunica - Union - Walthall - Warren - Washington - Wayne - Webster - Wilkinson - Winston - Yalobusha - Yazoo Beauregard is a village located in Copiah County, Mississippi. ... Crystal Springs is a city located in Copiah County, Mississippi. ... 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External links

• Copiah County Courthouse Pictures