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.
History. Soon after the end of the Civil War (1868), Escambia County was formed from parts of Conecuh and Baldwin Counties by an Act of Legislature of Alabama. The Act was introduced by Mr. Mark Lyons, the grandfather of Senator Lister Hill. Mr. Lyons was a merchant and timber buyer who resided in Pollard. In the Act creating the county, Pollard was designated as the Seat of Justice, and remained the County Seat until 1883. It was then moved to Brewton. The first courthouse was built in 1901.