HATTIESBURG, a city of south-eastern Mississippi, U.S.A., on the Leaf river; the county seat of Forrest county. It is on Federal highways 11 and 49, and is served by the Bonhomie and Hattiesburg Southern, the Illinois Central, the Mississippi Central and the Southern railways. The population was 13,27o in 192o (37% negroes) and it was 18,6o1 in 193o by the Federal census. It is in the heart of the long-leaf pine belt, which, although the timber is fast vanishing, still supplies many saw-mills. A large plant of the Hercules Powder company makes turpentine, resin and other articles from the pine stumps, and there are railroad shops and sundry smaller manufacturing industries. The factory output in 1925 was valued at $6,826,847. Hattiesburg is the seat of the State Teachers college (established 1910) and of the Mis sissippi Woman's college. During the World War an army canton ment (Camp Shelby) was situated here. The city was founded about 1882, as a lumber centre, and was named after the wife of a railway official who was influential in its establishment. It was incorporated as a town in 1884 and as a city in 1899. In 1908, when Forrest county was erected from part of Perry, it became the county seat. It has a commission form of government.