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* HISTORY OF SM) ST. LOUIS, MISS.
Bay St. Louis was entered by Iberville and its banks settled upon by a French colony hearly 200 years(before 1903). The explorers found a beautiful sheet of water, 2 miles wide at its mouth and expanding as it stretched toward the interior between its forest clad borders. It receives the tributary waters of 3 streams! The Boisdore, Pontage and Wolfe rivers and the Jourdan river on the westward side. It is said by old residents that pirate Lafitte used to hide his treasure in the Wolfe River.
The town of Bay St. Louis is situata ed on a comparatively elevated plateau of an area of Approx 30 square miles that juts out as a peninsular into the western side of the Bay. It is sej separated from the mainland on the north by Jourdan river, washed on the south by the waters of the Miss Sound and fronts eastward on Bay St. Louis. The land of this peninsula is from 10-20 feet above sea level.
As far back as tradition goes this immediate section was used by the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Alibamons and other Indian tribes and was visited by the Natchez tribe.
It is now (1903) a favoa rite resort for New Orleans people, being only 52 miles from New Orleans. During the summer regattas are held and yachts sail from N. 0., Mobile, and Pensacola.. Fine fishing can be done on the rivers, page 12	****
Fr page 3? Reminiscences of Bay St. Louis by Gertrude Cowand:
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"Aout the year 1720	there lived an Inidian chief by
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the name of "Great Moon" whose village was situated on the shore of the bay in front of where Carrol Avenue now is. ,H/,The village was called "Chonconpoulon" which signified "bad grass" in the Choctaw language.	- *	.	/.	<
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