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BAY ST. LOT' CANNON IN WAR OF 1812
—	A LITTLE "PARIS" IN REFINEMENT —
OPPORTUNITY FOR VISITORS -- TURTLE RAISING AND SHEEP PRODUCTION FOR WOOLEN MILL
1886
Louisville & Nashville Bay St. Louis, Miss.
Bay of Saint Louls
upon
Bay St. Louis was by a small French
entered by colony 185
Iberville, years ago.
and its (1886)
R. R.
1886
banks settled
The explorers found a beautiful sheet of water, two miles wide at its mouth, and explanding, as it stretched toward the interior, between its forest-clad borders. It receives the tributary waters of three streams, the Boisdore, Portage, and Wolf Rivers of our day, from the east, and Jourdan River on its westward side.
Name Selection
The French were fond of sainting their great Bourbon sovereign in his New World dominions. The grandest river in the unexplored continent, the old Indian "Mississippi," was called the "River St, Louis." The forest-engirdled bay on this seacoast was named the "Bay of St. Louis," and all the way from Northern Acadia to the straggling colonies along the Gulf of Mexico there were enough "St. Louises" to offset the mortal misdemeanors of the puissant monarch at home.
In all this region, strange to say, there appear to be no landmarks to perpetuate the names of the knightly men who brought the Old World’s civilization and arts to a barbaric land--no town, village, plain, hill, river, or bay that bears such names as Iberville, Bienville, Sauvolle, St. Denys, Hubert, Boisbriant, Chateaugae, Bernard de la Harpe, and other captains and chevaliers who won and ruled the country.
Summer Health Resort
There is a comparatively elevated plateau of an area of approximately 30 square miles that juts out as a peninsula into the western side of Bay St. Louis. It Is separated from the mainland on the north by Jourdan River, a large, deep stream, washed on the south by the waters of Mississippi Sound, and fronts eastward on Bay §t. Louis
The land of this peninsula Is from 10 to 20 feet above the sea level. As far back as tradition goes this immediate section was used