BROOKHAVEN, a city in the pine forest region of south western Mississippi, U.S.A., on Federal highway 51, and served by the Illinois Central and the Mississippi Central railways ; the county seat of Lincoln county. The population was 4,706 in 1920; in 193o, 5,288. Brookhaven is the centre of large lumbering and agricultural interests ; a shipping point for cotton ; and the seat of Whitworth college for women (established 1858). The city was founded about 1854 and incorporated in 187o.