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1928
The building of the Bay St. Louis Bridge is the realization of a wonderful vision. It is more than two miles long and was built at a cost of $8000.00. It is a tribute to the God-given genius of man and remains an everlasting monument to the onward march of the people of its county. Birmingham Age-Herald March-April 1928 (MJS IX 00125)
1931
The newly opened free Rigolets Bridge was seriously damaged by a barge and will be out of service for three months. Old route has two toll charges which will have to be used and paid during end of summer business. There are only 18 miles of gravel road between Gulfport and New Orleans, all in Hancock County. (The Mississippi Guide Aug. 21, 1931 VF MJS IX 00183)
1932
Only one half mile of Highway 90 between Gulfport and New Orleans remains to be paved. There are two blocks at Bay St. Louis. Four miles west of Bay St. Louis there is one-quarter a mile over a "fill" (Mississippi Guide, Sept. 23, 1932 VF MJS IX 00197)
1934
Mississippi Coast Bridges - Nearly five miles of bridges, erected at a cost of $2,500,000, link the Coast ribbons of hard-surface highway from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula, exclusive of the nearby bridges at Mobile and Lake Pontchartrain which, if added to these would bring the cost of the coastline bridges to $12,562,000.
This immense building program to span the clear waters of the bayous, bays and rivers was started in 1925.
The longest of the Coast bridges is the one at Bay St. Louis which is 14,455 feet in length, cost $800,000 and was built in 1926.
The Back Bay or d'Iberville bridge at Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge 4,200 feet in length, was started in June, 1930, and is the last of the big improvements. The tremendous building program was finished with the completion of the Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge dedicated during the Confederate Reunion as a World War (one) Memorial Bridge.
Few sections can boast of anything like what this
locality offers in this respect.
In addition to the largest bridges of the Coast there are the 880 foot Pascagoula River $165,000 bridge: the Moss Point bridge which cost $132,000; the Bayou Portage 2,903 - foot structure and the Popp's Ferry span. ("1934 Biographies of Mississippi Coast - Souvenir Golden Jubilee Number Commemorating 50 Years of Newspaper Service by the Daily Herald" p. 77) (MJS IX 00216)
Mississippi Coast Bridges - Nearly five miles of bridges, erected at a cost of $2,500,000, link the Coast
ribbons of hard-surface highway from Bay St. Louis to
Pascagoula, exclusive of the nearby bridges at Mobile
and Lake Pontchartrain which, if added to these would
bring the cost of the coastline bridges to $12,562,000.
This immense building program to span the clear waters
of the bayous, bays and rivers was started in 1925.
The longest of the Coast bridges is the one at Bay St.
Louis which is 14,455 feet in length, cost $800,000 and
was built in 1926.
The Back Bay or d'Iberville bridge at Biloxi-Ocean
Springs bridge 4,200 feet in length, was started in
June, 1930, and is the last of the big improvements.
The tremendous building program was finished with the completion of the Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge dedicated
during the Confederate Reunion as a World War (one)
Memorial Bridge.
Few sections can boast of anything like what this
locality offers in this respect.
In addition to the largest bridges of the Coast there
are the 880 foot Pascagoula River $165,000 bridge: the Moss Point bridge which cost $132,000; the Bayou Portage
2,903 foot structure and the Popp's Ferry span. ("1934
Biographies of Mississippi Coast - Souvenir Golden
Jubilee Number Commemorating 50 Years of Newspaper
Service by the Daily Herald" p. 77) (MJS IX 00216)
WHERE TO PUT BAY ST. LOUIS BRIDGE
The people of Bay St. Louis are having a hard tme to decide just where they want THEIR new bridge located. The new bridge is to replace the old wooden structure across the Bay of St. Louis which conects Hancock and Harrison counties. A number messages are being sent the members of the State Highway Department from residents of Hancock County, pro and con. Some asking that the new bridge be constructed in the location of the old bridge, due to business. Others asking that it be built 2000 feet above the old bridge.
From the way they are griping about it you would think they are putting up all the money.
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.
Dso you remember the first story you ever learned about he 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.