Local History
The History of the Magnolia Gazette
The Magnolia Gazette, Pike County’s oldest continuously operating business, was established on December 7, 1872 by Captain James D. Burke. Burke, who had served as an officer in Confederacy...
South of McComb, only five miles from the Louisiana line, is Magnolia, one of my favorite little towns in Mississippi, and aptly named because of the beautiful lanes of our state’s Magnolia grandiflora on the banks of a stream running near...
By Lucius M. Lampton, M. D., Editor/Publisher, Magnolia Gazette
