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DID BRITISH TROOPS PASS THROUGH BAY ST. LOUIS EN ROUTE TO NEW ORLEANS IS ASKED BY LOCAL WpjlTER WHO REPORTS SIGN:
Cedar Point Supplies Scene of Evidences That Give Ris< To Thought They did Camp There During Period of Illness.
Local stories of the past wheth they be legendary or fact are always of absorbing interest. Bay St. Lou s. former native ~heath of the Chot-taw, has been the scene of many legendary and other stories that ha^e come to light. Back files of The S4a Coast Echo carry several of sui stories.
This is a new one, however, arid is worthy of scrap book preservation, regardless of its being fact or theory. We take it from the Rock-A-Chaw, St. Stanislaus College school publication:	;
There is an old story which has been handed down from Bay St. Louisans since generations igone by that British soldiers once encamped in the woods in the rear of o$e of the Bay City?s fashionable residential sections, Cedar Point.
Some say that such a thing is absurd and could never have happened but many things remain to support that theory, so erroneously called ?imagination or legend.?
Some two miles or more from the beach road, down a halfcovered path, through dense vegetation two deep holes, half filled with leaves, pine needles and carelessly dumped refuse can barely be seen by the most pains-taking observer. The holes are, at present, approximately from ten to twelve feet deep. About fifty yards from the holes is an ancient graveyard belong-
ing to one of the historic old Bay Saint Louis families.
Those holes, lying far from everything, are said to have been wells dug by>the English, when they were stopped in their march on New Orleans in 1815 by an attack of yellow fever or some such disease in their ranks. There, it is said, they stayed for an indefinite period until their numbers were wholly or partially returned to health.
Also, near the vicinity of the wells, old pottery, a musket broken in two, the remains of a pistol, and a large ring of keys aobut a foot and a half in. diameter were found. It is also rumored ,but this with no certainty or means of investigation, that human bones were found within a radius of a half-mile of the spot.
Many of the old French peo- 1 pie have supported and handed . down to their children this story but whether it is true or orig- I inated by just coincidence and quirks of nature will probably never be known. No refer- i ences in history have been made j to the British passing through! j any section of Mississippi but allusions have been made to ,, their passing near to the Gulf >j of Mexico in one or two v texts j btit it still remains a question- ; able phenomena and may remain so until the end of the world.