On April 7; 1870; an act of the state legislature created Lincoln County; named for Pres. Abraham Lincoln; from Lawrence; Franklin; Copiah; Pike; and Amite Counties. Settlement began more than 50 years earlier with Samuel Jayne�s small trading post on St. Stephens Road. Extensive timber resources; the arrival of the railroad in 1857; and the 1859 founding of Whitworth Female College put the county on the map. Logging; lumber mills; and other industries brought scores of people to the region. The agricultural endeavors of cotton and farming provided a way of life before the oil boom of the 1940s. The varied ethnic and religious history of the residents further shaped the county into what exists today.
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