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So far, we have heard no complaints from the people of Henderson Point. The proposed new bridge will bypass most business places there.
The engineers of the Highway Department should use their own judgment and not be influenced by any one or group of people, regardless of a few dollars. Regardless of where it is locad some body will squawk.
Do you remember the first story you ever learned about the man and boy with the donkey? Everybody the man and boy met with the donkey had a new suggestion. Well, that applies to every walk of life to the end. Try to please everybody - you please nobody.
It seems safer from a traffic standpoint for highways to by-pass thoroughfares in towns and cities. People going thru seldom stop and spend any money in small places and if they want to stop they certainly do not mind driving a couple blocks to Bay St. Louis or other towns, but if they are going straight through they can save time by missing the congested streets.
The public is going to pay for it so put it in the most logical place.
NEW BAY SPAN IS DEDICATED Tribune 6-7-1930
The Harrison and Jacksn County bridge over the bay of Biloxi was dedicated to the men and women of he counties who served in the world war, Tuesday.
Wreaths tossed from planes fell about the mile and a half bridge as ceremonies mark the opening of the last link in 32 miles of bridges on the Old Spanish Trail spanning the bay-spiked coast between Mobile and New Orleans. The latest bridge joins Biloxi with Ocean Springs and shortens the highway distance seven miles.
Dedication of the $900,000 structure was especially set for the Confederate veterans reunion in Biloxi.
Tribune 6-7-1930
Bay Ice Co. - See Bay St. Louis Ice, Light & Bottling Works
Bay Ice Cream Parlor, 246 Ulman Av. (Ph 48-49)
Bay Mercantile. Sketch (SCE 5 Sept. 1903 pg. 14), complete page. Photo of store, Jno. Osoinach and one of the stores.
Founded ca. 1895 as Joyce & Osoinach. Mr. Joyce died and Mrs. Joyce took the Gulfport store. Osoinach took BSL. 1903 there were two stores with the hardware being on the opposite side of the street. (Address not given. Remember that the lots in the 200 block of S. Beach were not bought until 1906.
Burned. 16 Nov. 1907. Both stores. 1908 Feb. 15,
Sylvan Ladner, former mgr. of Bay's Mercantile Co's Hardware, formerly Combel's establishment will open his own hardware at the same place (?). (SCE 2/15/08).
Bay Mercantile. Advertisement, J. Osoinach, prop. Opposite Merchants Bank. (SCE 7 Mar 1908)
John Osoinach built annex to Bay Mercantile on beach front, (SCE 23 May 1908).
Bay Mercantile, 205 S. Beach (Ph 48 thru 50) 100 N. Bch. (Ph 55 )
Bay Mercantile. See Osoinach. Main and Front St. (Eagle 1958, p. 12).
Bay Motors Inc. 130 Court (Ph 48 thru 50,55 )
Bay Naval Stores Company. Offices over Hancock Bank. Plants located on Wolf River, Rotten Bayou and at Center. (SCE 5/9/03).
Bay Pictorium. On beach front opp. Echo Bldg. W. A. Sigerson, Prop. Change of moving pictures daily, beautiful illustrated song. Adm. 5 cents. (SCE 5 Sep 1908).
1911 advertisement - described it as a first class electric theatre with admission of a nickel but on Vaudeville nights, admission of a dime. (SCE Jubilee 1942)
Bay Plumbing Co. 110 State (Ph 48 thru 50,55)
Bay Ready-Mix Concrete Ulman Ave. (Ph 55)
BAYSIDE PARK - Located four and one-half miles west of Bay St. Louis. (Hometown Mississippi by James F. Brieger)
Bay St. Louis Academy - Mr. W.G. Harby, one of our oldest and most experienced teachers, has opened a School at that pleasant resort of remales, the Bay of St. Louis. This will be a great convenience to the large number of persons who expect to pass the summer at this pleasant place.
(Advertisement) Bay St. Louis Academy, the subscriber respectfully informs the public that he has opened his Academy at the above place. All branches of an English, French and Classical Education will be imparted to youth. For further information, apply to: M. Judson, No. 2 Camp St.; Demarest, Alling & Co., 58 Common St.; I.J. Harris, 36 Camp St. or at the Institution to Geo. W. Garby, Principal Teacher. (Daily Delta, Thur. June 26, 1851 p 2 c 1 - MJS III 00374)
Bay St. Louis Brick Yard - For Sale 100,000 Bricks (SCE 8/27/1892 thru 9/17/1892)
Bay St. Louis Brick Yard - Last week the Bay St. Louis Brick Yard company shipped one car load of bricks to the Ocean Springs Lumber Co., of Ocean Springs, Miss. The brick company is in a flourishing condition. (SCE 10/01/1892)
Bay St. Louis Bridge - also see Bridges
If you are interested in the Gulf coast, you should tell the Supervisor from your beat that you want a Bridge over the Bay of St. Louis and are heartily in favor of a New Orleans and Mobile speedway. It will dovetail nicely with the Biloxi-Pass Christian boulevard project (Times-Democrat & Picayune, Sat Apr. 18, 1914 p 11 editorial page quoting "Biloxi Herald - VF MJS VIII 00381)
Bay St. Louis Wooden Bridge - Days of Picnics - But the great day for Bay St. Louis was in 1928 when the ferry across Bay St. Louis was replaced with the wooden bridge across the Bay - built at the cost of $752,610.65 of creosoted pilings and timber. This project which was the result of the hard work and energy of Horatio S. Weston of Logtown, then president of the Board of Supervisors, suddenly transformed Bay St. Louis from an independent and isolated resort town to the open western portal of the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was then it took its present recognized place as one of the Eight Sister Cities by the Sea that now comprise the closest year round saltwater recreation land to the midcontinent of the nation. Not even the seven million dollar steel and concrete low toll bridge opened twenty-five years later in August of 1953 was as important as this first highway bridge across the Bay which first united Bay St. Louis with the rest of the Gulf Coast.
That bridge ended its history as an isolated community.
Today its story is merged and fused with the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast. It is the community where travelers coming east over the Old Spanish Trail or U. S. 90 on its long land bound trek from California, first catch sight of the beauty of the Bay of St. Louis and the Gulf of Mexico beyond. Today as the Western Gateway to the Mississippi Gulf Coast it greets its visitors on the celebration of its 100 Birthday - and as the western portal of the fastest growing year round saltwater recreation land in the nation will start writing its second century of history. (Sun Herald July 29, 1958)
Bay St. Louis Farmers' Alliance, 1465 meets every first Saturday of each month at Bayou Philip schoolhouse. H. Luxich, president, Samuel vonDrozkowsky, secretary. (SCE 12/10/1892 thru 12/17/1892)
Bay St. Louis Farmers' Alliance, 1465, meets every first Saturday of each month at Bayou Phillip Schoolhouse. H. Luxich, president, Samuel von Drozkowsky, secretary. (SCE 01/14/1893)
BAY ST. LOUIS, CITY OF
Indian Village at BSL called Chickpoula or "Bad Grass"
Bay St. Louis - Its History in a Hurry
In the beginning Bay St. Louis belonged to the Choctaws. It was theirs to hunt and fish and habitate and the called it Chicaapoula.
When they acquired it or how long they had possessed it they did not know. They had no talking paper that recorded such senseless details as land grants or deeds to property. Their tribal tales merely told them that they had once come out of the West, carrying all their possessions and the sacred bones of their dead ones, seeking new hunting grounds. And when they reached the Pearl River, on the opposite side of which their scouts reported limitless forest land teeming with game and innumerable streams filled with fish in this bit of Southland we now know as Mississippi, they had sought no further. For countless centuries it was theirs alone. Until that day in 1682 when LaSalle`s expedition, that had just planted the fleur de lis banner of France at the mouth of the Mississippi scouted the Gulf Coast and were the first recorded white men to sight Bay St. Louis. After that the Choctaws were to remain unmolested for only 17 years more. For in the Spring of 1699 d`Iberville came to occupy and colonize all the land claimed by LaSalle in 1682, and established Fort Maurepas and the first permanent white settlement in what is now the entire Mississippi Valley at what is now Ocean Springs only a little over thirty land miles from what is now the city of Bay St. Louis. It was this same d`Iberville who, on a reconnaissance trip soon after the fort was built on the Bay of Biloxi, first entered and explored the coast’s beautiful bay we know today as Bay St. Louis -but did not land on its shore. It was his brother Bienville with another exploring party who a few months later first set its foot on its land and formally named it Bay St. Louis in honor of the French Crusader, King and Saint Louis IX on whose feast day of August 25 they had landed. In December of that same year d`Iberville sent a sergeant with 15 soldiers and a few civilians to establish an outpost on this bountiful and beautiful bay, which is its first recorded white occupancy. As close as can be determined that outpost was located between Caroll avenue and DeMontluzin street on the beach. History does not mention this little military post again so it is a matter of conjecture whether it continued or not-but twenty-two years later in 1721 it does state that several hundred colonists landed and part of them were delivered to the Madame Mezieres tract which was just north of Felicity street. It is accepted that those members of d`Ibervilles little military outpost and the settlers on the Mezieres tract were the first families of Bay St. Louis -but who they were, what properties they occupied and how long they stayed is unknown. (The typist recording this article did not list its source - CHG)