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British aiuoh has been written and praise duly given. The nams of this un it a nystery to this generation.
tony years later this house was owned by Judg* Ny? of Natchoa who used It u a sunsaor hooe. Bara maay notable people hars been ent<*rtaln?d. Tradition has it that it was oneed owned by ths Aoerlcan gtveranont and that ouch of tha business of the no* oountry waa transacted within Its vails. Hare no doubt gathered,in tha early l&OO?s, each aon as Andrew Jackson, Edward Livingston* Vincent Holt* and other notables of that period who figured in tha affairs of our
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oountry around tha years following tbs War of 1612. ?
This stretch of oountry between Bay St Louis and Pearl River is the oldest continuously Inhabited part cf the Coast. There seems but little doubt that as early as 1707* there existed a flourishing and permanent sottlenent on tha Bay of St Louis, antedating by nary years tha settlement at Pascagoula or north of the present city of Biloxi. The first land record of a white Inhabitant of Hanooelc County was that of John B. Saucier In 1712* who* tradition says., ones owned the larger part of the lsnd froa the Bay of Bt Louis te tha Pearl Hirer. It is sot salsa to incorporate a rmry brief histoiy of Baasook County at this point*
HAflOOOK QOOWTY
Bsaoook County is the westemnost of the three (talf Coast eountie* of tha State, and was originally established in the territorial period, on Deosaber 14, 1812* Setae of its territory want for formation and expansion of Pearl River County in 1&90 sad	re-
spectively. Ths sounty now has as area of M69 square wiles.
Hansoek County was w>l In honor of John Buteoek, first aignsr tbs Daclaratioa of Xniaptedactea. It Hw had a varied aai