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law of the land, having been recorded no less than four times at different stages in its career of a century.
?Chou-cou-pou-lou? continued a small village of Spanish, French and Indian inhabitants until the year of 1819, when a storm, much more violent than that of 1893, accompanied by a tidal wave, swept the village out of existence and drowned most of its inhabitants.
A few years later families from other parts of the United States, and some foreigners as well, came to the shores of the Bay of St. Louis and made their homes here ? hence arose another village, Phoenix-like, from the ashes of old ?Chou-cou-pou-lou?. It was named Shieldsboro, in honor of General Shields.
About this time the writer?s grandfather came here and purchased from the heirs of Louis Alexo Lessassier the lands granted him by Spain. He was only one of many who came here and bought up land and cast their futures with Shieldsboro.
Then came an era of prosperity. Slaves worked in the fields of the finest Sea Island cotton, cane, rice and vegetables. Lovely plantation homes began to grace the banks of the bay.
A Catholic Church, Our Lady of the Gulf, arose and was, as it is now, an ornament to old Shieldsboro. Since those days the church has been greatly improved, but the original part of the edifice remains intact.
The Rectors of The Sacred Heart and the Sisters of St. Joseph also came and added their share toward the progress of the town.
Steamboats landed at the head of where Carroll avenue is now. ?Twas not thought possible in those days that a
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