Hermanville

History

Hermanville was established on March 15, 1886. The town's economy was based on cotton, cattle, and timber products. The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany was built in Hermanville in 1887. By 1982, the congregation had become inactive as population decreased. In 1985 the building was moved to the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson, where it is used as a chapel. The Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad was completed in 1882, and a depot was established in Hermanville. Known locally as "The Little J", the line ran between the state capital of Jackson and Natchez. It had various owners; the last was the Illinois Central Railroad, which abandoned the line in railroad industry restructuring between 1979 and 1981. During the early 1960s, a lumber mill in Hermanville was producing of high-quality southern pine annually. Author Nevada Barr wrote of Hermanville in 2000: The town, if such a humble scatter of buildings around a crossroads and a single-room post office could be called a town, embodied the Northerner's view of the "real" Mississippi. The gracious homes of Natchez were not in evidence, nor was the classic architecture...seen in Port Gibson and the city of Clinton. Trailer houses and shacks sat at odd angles to the two-lane road as if they had fallen haphazardly from a passing cargo plane.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Turkey Vulture

  Cathartes aura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  82
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  75
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  72
• Red-bellied Woodpecker

  Melanerpes carolinus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  71
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  68
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  66
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  63
• Black Vulture

  Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793) · Aves
  57

Largest nearby schools

• A. W. WATSON ELEMENTARY
  Elementary · PORT GIBSON · 533 students · 14.8:1 ratio
• PORT GIBSON HIGH SCHOOL
  High · PORT GIBSON · 375 students · 12.5:1 ratio
• PORT GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · PORT GIBSON · 280 students · 14:1 ratio
• CLAIBORNE COUNTY VOC COMPLEX
  High · PORT GIBSON

Most recent

• M 2.8 — 2019-08-09
  Mississippi
• M 2.6 — 2015-08-17
  9 km N of Madison, Mississippi
• M 3.2 — 2015-06-29
  6 km SSW of Canton, Mississippi
• M 3 — 2015-05-03
  8 km WSW of Canton, Mississippi
• M 3.2 — 2015-05-03
  7 km SSW of Canton, Mississippi