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Picayune, MS

NickName: The Yune.
Picayune is the largest city in Pearl River County, Mississippi. Picayune will be added to the New Orleans Metropolitan area in 2014 Located approximately 45 miles from New Orleans, Hattiesburg, and Gulfport/Biloxi.
The Stennis Space Center is 10 miles away.

Picayune was founded in 1904, named by Eliza Jane Poitevent Nicholson, the owner and the publisher of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, a newspaper named for the Spanish Coin.

The Crosby Arboretum is located in Picayune, Mississippi, and affiliated with the Mississippi State University. It contains 64 acres sheltering over 300 species of indigenous trees and shrubs. The Arboretum is home to the Pinecote Pavilion designed by the late E. Fay Jones.
Jones was an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright and followed many of Wright's design principles. The pavilion is one of the architectural jewels of not only Pearl River county, but also Mississippi.

While Picayune received extensive damage from Hurricane Katrina, it was not as severe as in other nearby cities. This has caused it to become the permanent home for many who relocated from the New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast and were seeking a safer homesite with easy commuting to those areas.

The bulk of the damage in Picayune was caused by winds from the hurricane. This resulted in widespread roof, window and fence damage. The wind also caused hundreds, if not thousands, of downed trees and power outages for up to several months.