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Poplarville Mississippi Living

11/14/2015

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Poplarville is situated in SW in Pearl River County on the Louisiana border. Poplarville is the Pearl River County Seat.



According to the U.S. Census Agency, the number of people that resided in Poplarville was 2,894 in 2010.

Poplarville was named in honor of well known community leader, Poplar Jim Poplarville Mississippi realty Smith who maintained a very large stand of Poplar trees on his property where the Pearl River County Courthouse stands today. “Poplar” Jim Smith traded ten bushels of corn to Indians for his land. The descendants of Poplar Jim still reside in this area.

By the 1880s, the New Orleans and Northeastern Railway developed a rail line connecting the location which considerably helped in the locations growth as well as economic development, specifically in the lumber market.



When World War I erupted, this area was alive with sawmills. Fortunes were made http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730204 in http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730204 the forestry industries.

In 1923, Pearl River Junior College was founded in Poplarville and has actually evolved into one of the most prominent Junior Colleges in the USA. Now referred to as Pearl River Community College, it still serves educational demands of residents of this area of Mississippi.

In the early 1960s, the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) brought high technology to the area when it developed the Mississippi Test Facility, a section of which extends into Pearl River County. This brand new test facility was developed to test the 1st 2 stages of the Saturn 5 spacecraft http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730204 that were engineered for traveling to the moon.

Around ten years later, after the Moon Mission was completed, the Mississippi http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730204 Test Facility was renamed the National Space Technology Laboratories (NSTL).





The United States Navy, U. S. Geological Survey, Earth Resources Laboratory, Environmental Protection Agency are some of the agencies which demand high technology. Scientific researchers have relocated into the Poplarville from all over the United States. Of the United States civil service employees stationed at NSTL, one of eight has a Doctorate Degree.

Poplarville has a attractive native environment offers numerous possibilities for entertainment and also eco-tourism.

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