Category: Communities

City of Wiggins and towns and communities of Stone County Mississippi

Fun Fact: Stone County in the Mississippi Code

Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Stone_County

While it was the will of the people to create a new county from Harrison County, this officially occurred by act of the Mississippi Legislature in 1916.

Miss. Code Ann. § 19-1-131. Stone County.

Stone County is bounded by beginning at the northwest corner of section six, township two, south, range thirteen, west; thence running south along the eastern boundary line of Pearl River County to the southwest corner of section thirty-one, township four, south, range thirteen, west; thence running east to the southeast corner of section thirty-six, township four, south, range thirteen, west; thence running north to the northeast corner of section twenty-five, township four, south, range thirteen, west; thence running east to the southeast corner of section twenty-one, township four, south, range nine, west; thence running north along the eastern boundary line of Jackson and George Counties to the northeast corner of section four, township two, south, range nine, west; thence running west to the point of beginning. The county site is Wiggins.

HISTORY: SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway’s 1917, § 3892; 1930, § 3953; 1942, § 3088; Laws, 1916, ch. 527.

Fun Fact: Stone County 2030 Comprehensive Plan

Did you know that Stone County has a comprehensive plan for economic development that takes into account our history? The plan includes many interesting details about us.

Cover - Stone County 2030 Comprehensive Plan
Cover – Stone County 2030 Comprehensive Plan

 

Fun Fact: Pine Hill Bricks

Pine Hill Bricks
Pine Hill Bricks

In case you are wondering when Pine Hill was first bricked, all you have to do is look back at the Thursday, December 15, 1927 edition of The Stone County Enterprise. According to this article, the bricks were stacked and ready for installation!

 

Fun Fact: McHenry Methodist Church

McHenry Methodist Church
McHenry Methodist Church

The McHenry Methodist Church stood for many years on the corner of McHenry Avenue and East McHenry Road.  This beautiful old church suffered significant damage in Hurricane Camille and was not restored. Some church furnishings today are held in family collections of the members at the time the building was destroyed. Beautifully white on the outside, the interior was dark stained wood with high ceilings. It was a beautiful and worshipful place.

Source: Photo – McHenry Family Archives

Fun Fact: Red Creek Blueway

Red Creek
Red Creek

Growing up in Stone County, you probably learned to swim in one of two places – the Perk pool (at then Perkinston Junior College) or in Red Creek. The latter was more likely the case. Chances are that your “spot” of choice was either at City Bridge or at the Highway 49 Bridge just north of the Perk turn-off. The clear waters with their reddish tint provided must relief on many a hot afternoon as well as provided lots of food for the table.

Today Red Creek is, in part, protected and promoted by The Land Trust of the Mississippi Coastal Plain. The Red Creek Blueway is a public waterway from Highway 26 west of Wiggins to its joining with Black Creek and has been designated one of Mississippi’s Scenic Streams.

The easternmost segment of the Blueway begins at Cable Bridge and ends at Highway 15. Along this segment, you will see the natural springs that feed the creek close to the historic site of the historic Ramsey Springs Hotel.

Sources: http://www.ltmcp.org/admin/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Blueway_brochure_low_web.pdf;  http://www.wlox.com/story/15598988/non-profit-to-restore-old-ramsey-springs-hotel-site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Springs,_Mississippi

Fun Fact: Deanash

Deanash Campus - Mississippi Baptist Children's Village
Deanash Campus – Mississippi Baptist Children’s Village

Deanash Campus of the Mississippi Baptist Children’s Village (MBCV) is the former home in the Bond Community of Dizzy Dean and his wife, Patricia Nash Dean.  The Deans moved here following Dizzy’s retirement as a sportscaster in the late 1960s. Bond was the hometown of Patricia Nash Dean. The property was an estate donation to the MBCV. Both Dizzy and Pat Dean are buried in the Bond Cemetery.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond,_Mississippi, http://www.baptistchildrensvillage.com/campus_detail.asp?cid=11, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14395959

Fun Fact: Old Wire Road

Mississippi State Historical Marker
Mississippi State Historical Marker

Across this spot in 1849 lines were strung on pines for Washington-Cincinnatti-Montgomery-Mobile-New Orleans telegraph. Line was discontinued in 1870 upon building of coastal railway.  Latitude & Longitude: 30° 46′ 57.1728″, -89° 8′ 13.7184″.  

 

Soource: http://www.stoppingpoints.com/mississippi/Stone/Old+Wire+Road.html

Fun Fact: National Register of Historic Places

George Austin McHenry House - early 1900s
George Austin McHenry House – early 1900s
George Austin McHenry House 2010
George Austin McHenry House 2010

Did you know that the George Austin McHenry House in McHenry is the only property in Stone County on the National Register of Historic Places? The older  photo in this post shows the house in the early 1900s. Standing in front of the house with “Ponnie” as he was known by his grandchildren are his wife Una and son Floyd.

The House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 thanks to the efforts of Dolores McHenry Mauldin. Hannah Mauldin Cliburn (great-grand-daughter of George Austin McHenry) today lives in the house with her husband Joe.

http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ms/Stone/state.html

http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natregsearchresult.do?fullresult=true&recordid=0

Photos are from the family’s collection.

Fun Fact: Niles City

Niles City was the name given to the village established on the homestead of  Madison Hatten in 1886. When the village of Niles City petitioned the United States government for a post office, they found that Niles City was already taken. The local folks renamed the village Wiggins in honor of Madison Hatten’s father, Wiggins Hatten.

Source: http://www.stonecounty.com/wiggins_history.htm

Stone County – Mississippi’s 81st County

Of the 82 counties in Mississippi, Stone County was the 81st county established when Harrison County was subdivided in 1916. The county was named for Mississippi’s 31st and 33rd Governor of Mississippi, John M. Stone.