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MAYOR!	Bay	St.	Louis was an Indian village long before the
days of the barbershop quartette. ; The Chocktaws called the village Chi-Ca-Pou-ia, which means "Bad Grass”. But the herds of Buffalo, venison and game made the area a happy hunting ground for them. Even today some of these full blooded Indians still live in the County, artOr within sight of the new £% mile	concrete	bridge	which	crosses	the
Bay of St. Louis^there is a large Indian mounts It is in the rear garden of the residence of Dr. & Mrs. B. L. Ramsey. Many citizens dJf Bay St. Louis and Hancock bounty can trace their ancertry back to the Chocktaws - first citizens of America.
Bienville was actually the first white man to set foot on this land and give it it's name. There is a record in the journal of the Frigate Le Marin dated August 25, 1699 which says, "We shortly afterwards found a beautiful Bay about one league in width by 4 in circumference which was named Bay Sf St. Louis because it was on the day of St. Louis that we arrived there.X We hunted 3 days and killed 50 deer."
•	Bienville left a few white families with a sargeat and 15 men in. a small fort on the high bluff where the present town of Bay St. Louis is situated.	was-22 years later in 1721 that..
2	ships arrived with 500 persons sent by L’Iberville, hoping for If
grants from the K-ing of France.
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To the music of bagpipes at Mobile the British fla^ ^ the place of the fleur-de-lis of France in 1763 ani, thereafter the , flags that flew over Mobile flew over the little fort on the bluff overlook the Bay of	St.	Louis. It was 1811 when the flag	of the U.	S.
wes actually raised	for	the	first time,,&»d Bay St. Louis	witnessed	a
naval ballte during	the	war	of 1812, harbored the infamous Jean Le fitte
and finally settled	down to	becoming American. .