A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America.he Rungus of Sabah in north Borneo build a type of longhouse with rather short stilts, the house raised three to five feet of the ground, and walls sloped outwards. Many place names in Sarawak have Long in their name and most of these are or once were longhouses.
Thaxton, Mississippi. Thaxton is a town in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The population was 643 at the 2010 census. There is a town of the same name in Virginia (see Thaxton, Virginia) Contents.
Escambia County, Alabama was created on December 10, 1868 from parts of Baldwin and Conecuh Counties. Approximately 1,000 square miles are included in Escambia County, Alabama. Our estimated population in 2014 was 37,733. Pollard was the first county seat, and Brewton became the county seat in the 1880s. Atmore, Flomaton, East Brewton, and Brewton are major towns in our county. Escambia County, Alabama is home to the Conecuh National Forest and the Little River State Forest. The Conecuh National Forest is in the eastern corner of the county and also in Covington County, our neighbor to the east.