A history of Kiln,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Kiln from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The earliest inhabitants of the area were Choctaw and Muscogee Indians, who lived along the banks of a river (later named the Jourdan River) emptying into the Bay of Saint Louis. These tribes hunted, fished, and trapped on the land prior to settlement by the French. In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a French explorer, claimed the region for France and named it "Louisiana", in honor of King Louis XIV, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast became part of the Lower Louisiana District.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Kiln’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJordan River Lumber Company Sawmi…, 1920: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Kiln, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Kiln
Kiln has 1 listing on the National Register, and they protect 6 historic buildings, because Holly Bluff on-the-Jordan alone counts 6.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Jordan River Lumber Company Sawmill (1920) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.