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ULMAN AVENUE
Ulman Avenue is now a quiet Bay St. Louis street skirting a nursing home and the Presbyterian Church at the beach end, dividing the buildings and grounds of the public Middle School, and passing a Little League ball park before crossing busy Dunbar Avenue and joining the highway. Until the four-lane concrete bridge across the bay opened several blocks to the north in 1953, however, Ulman Avenue had been for many years a part of the highway itself, the Bay St. Louis section of Highway 90, opening out at its east end onto a wooden bridge that crossed the bay where today a municipal pier stands.
The avenue commemorates the family name of Alfred A. Ulman, who in the 1880's established the Ulman Woolen Mills on Nicholson Avenue in Waveland, and who was until his death the mayor of Waveland. There was a thriving wool industry in Hancock County at the time, and the Ulman Mills, which closed at the death of Mr. Ulman, produced blankets and scarves. Another prominent businessman of Waveland and Bay St. Louis was J. B. Ulman, who owned a general merchandise store located opposite the Woolen Mills. Both men helped to develop the Bay-Waveland area, and it is appropriate that a street should keep their name alive.
Selected Bibliography Dyer, Charles Lawrence. Along the Gulf. Gulfport, Mississippi: The Dixie Press, 1894-95.
Hancock County Eagle. Centennial Edition, 1958.
Sea Coast Echo. Golden Jubilee Edition, 1942.
[Prepared by Emily H. de Montluzin]