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Farmers market runs through September
Downtown green, Saturday mornings. The bread stand is back and the cider is worth the trip.
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Purvis
Mississippi · MS
About Purvis
City in Mississippi, United States1,909Population
3.9 sq miArea
387 ftElevation
Purvis is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Lamar County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Purvis had a population of 1,909. The Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888 and was founded by and named after Thomas Melville Purves, originally of Marion County, Alabama. Purves, born March 8, 1820, was a second generation Scottish-American; his grandfather emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina in 1765.
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