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The Pine Belt, also known as the Piney Woods, is a region in Southeast Mississippi. The region gets its name from the longleaf pine trees that are abundant in the region. [ 1 ] The Pine Belt includes 9 counties : Covington , Forrest , Greene , Jefferson Davis , Jones , Lamar , Marion , Perry , and Wayne .
Piney Woods is an unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. [1] It is the site of the Piney Woods Country Life School, a historically African-American boarding school established in 1909. The community is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The campground is open seasonally, typically from May–October. Rocky Knob is also home to Rock Castle Gorge, a 3,500 acres (14 km 2) gorge, and home to the Rock Castle Gorge National Recreation Trail. The trail drops 1,000 feet in elevation in 3 miles, and backpackers can request a backcountry camping permit from the National Park Service.
The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) is the most common of the pond and river turtles, although river cooters (Pseudemys concinna), Mississippi map turtles (Graptemys pseudogeographica), Sabine map turtles (Graptemys sabinensis), and the rare chicken turtle (Deirochelys reticularia) all occur there. The worldwide distribution of the Sabine ...
Piney Grove at Southall's Plantation is located on the high ridge of land to the north of the river, in an area of smaller plantations with more modest homes. The original section was built about 1800 as a 20-by-22-foot (6.1 m × 6.7 m), one-story log corn crib. It was expanded to a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log store about 1820. In 1853, two additions ...
The 1,900-acre (7.7 km 2) Flint Creek Water Park provides a wide assortment of outdoor recreational opportunities, most focusing on water sports. [4] The 600-acre (2.4 km 2) Flint Creek Reservoir is created by an earthen dam impounding the headwaters of Flint Creek, which flows south into Red Creek, [5] a tributary of the Pascagoula River.
Pine Grove Furnace State Park is a protected Pennsylvania area that includes Laurel and Fuller Lakes in Cooke Township of Cumberland County. The Park accommodates various outdoor recreation activities, protects the remains of the Pine Grove Iron Works (1764), and was the site of Laurel Forge (1830), Pine Grove Park (1880s), and a brick plant ...