About the Longleaf Trace

The scenic Longleaf Trace, a recreational trail that winds through three south Mississippi counties for more than forty miles, is the remnant of the Mississippi Central Railroad that a century ago supported sawmills, logging camps, and towns now forever abandoned and extinct. Between Hattiesburg and Prentiss, a century of history is hidden among the canopies of hardwoods and pine meadows now connected by county roads and state highways. Where the echo of the steam locomotive’s whistle once broke the silence of the morning, thousands of joggers, bicyclists and equestrians enjoy the serenity of the piney woods’ countryside on a ribbon of asphalt ten feet wide.

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