1968 Map of Homewood

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The Bienville National Forest dominates this section of the Mississippi pine belt, where the boundary between Scott and Smith counties cuts through a landscape of creek bottoms and timbered ridges. Small rural communities like Homewood, Lorena, and Burns serve as anchors for a network of country churches and family cemeteries, including Luther Chapel Cem and Black Cem. The presence of Bentonite Pits near Yellow Creek indicates the importance of local clay mining to the mid-century economy, while a Gravel Pit near Barber Creek points to road-building activities in the late 1960s.