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FIRST RAILROAD THE FIRST RAILROAD IN HANCOCK COUNTY PUT AN END TO THE BRINGING OF FREIGHT BY BARGE FROM NOV ORLEANS. FT WAS KNOWN AS THE NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE, * CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD ANL WAS H/IB.T AMD OPENED FCR .TRAFFIC IN 7872* THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS RAILROAD WET WITH GREAT DIFFICULTIES, NOT ONLY I'N BRIDGING THE MARSHES AND THE TWO-MILE-V/IDE BAY OF ST. LOUIS BUT IN EXTREM&Y COSTLY UPKEEP. WORMS AND OTHER SEA INSECTS WOULD ATTACK THE PILING AND SOON WAKE THEM USELESS SO THAT CONSTANT REPLACEMENT WAS REQUIRED. THIS DIFFICULTY WAS FINALLY OVERCOME, HOWEVER, BY TREATING THE PILING WITH' CKWaOTE. TO MR* CHARLES CHADVW CK OF WAVELAND WENT THE HONOR OF DRIVING THE GOLDEN SPIKE AT TWE R|fGOLETS, WHI CH MARKED THE COMPLETION OF THE PART OF THE RAILROAD RUNNING THROUGH THIS SECTION.
THIS DIVISION WAS PURCHASED UN 7878 BY THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD, BY WHICH NAME IT IS NOW KNOWN. A BAY ST* LOUIS MAN, JOHN A. GREEN, SERVED TH E L t K AS LOCAL AGENT FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS, HAVING BEEN FIRST EMPLOYED fN 7874 AND HOLDING THE POSITION OF AGENT FRCM 7880 UNTIL HE RETIRED IN 79J2.
MANY CITI ZEN S OF TODAY WILL REMEMBER THE SUNDAY /WD WEDNESDAY DOLLAR-EXCURSION TRAINS RUNNING FROM NEW ORLEANS TO OCEAN SPRINGS AND ALWAYS FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH HAPPY CROWDS. AT BAY ST. LOUIS IT WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUMMERTIME PLEASURES TO MEET THE EXCURSION TRAIN AT THE STATION AND PROMENADE WITH OTHER FRI ENDS THERE, WATCHING THE VENDORS RUNNING UP AND DOWN OUTSIDE THE TRAIN SELLING OYSTER SANDWICHES, FRIED FISH SANDWICHES, AND SOMETIMES FIGS AND CAMELLIAS THROUGH THE WINDOWS.
A TWO-M I LE-LONG WOODEN HIGHWAY BRIDGE SPANNING THE BAY WAS OPENED IN 1958 AND THUS ENDED THE INADEQUATE FERRYBOAT SERVICE WHICH CARRIED TRAFFIC FROM BAY ST. LOUIS TO HENDERSON POINT. IT IN TURN WAS REPLACED IN RECENT YEARS BY A NINE-MILLION DOLLAR, FOUR-LANE <D NCRETE BRIDGE, WHICH IS PERHAPS THE OOUNIY,S GREATEST ASSET.