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Orleans and Mobile Steam Mail Line Co. Later he personally took command of their steamer Florida and thus acquired the title of captain. Many of Grant’s descendants still thrive on the coast he helped to build.
These early steamboats used for fuel-wood which was contracted for and stacked at intervals along the river bank. Fresh water for the Doiler was pumped from the rivers, but on the Gulf Coast runs the boats carried fresh water tanks which had to be refilled every few hours. It is very probable that these wood and water stops contributed to the early development of Mississippi Coast towns.
Stores, hotels and restaurants grewup around the steamboat landing, which apparently was at Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian. An 1855 advertisement of Charles Bellman’s drug store gave the address at "the East end of the plank walk, Biloxi, Mississipppi." It is easy to speculate that the steamboat landing at Biloxi was on the pass, with the-early stores lined along a plank walk extending west from what is now Bellman Street.
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StcainerCREOLE—Winter arrangemtnt, for New Orleang and all intermediate places—the splendid Low Pressure Packet Steamer CREOLE, Reuben Post, master, built expressly for the lake trade, with superior accommodations will leave OceanSprings as follows:
OCEAN SPRINGS* Weds’day ev’n 5pm Friday morning 5am Sunday evening 5 p m Passage. Cabin $3,
NEW ORLEANS.
Tuesday ev’n 4pm Thursday	9am
Saturday	4pm
Deck §1.‘25. Children
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