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Alone the Gulf
In 1895, the book entitled Along the Gulf was published by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in order to promote travel along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Among other areas, one attraction was called Brown’s Vineyard. It was called “a veritable garden of beauty,” crediting Mr. Brown with having “...planted almost exclusively the famous Scuppemong Grapes [on] ninety acres of the finest land in this section of the country.”
The article then narrated that the vineyard was started 35 years before by Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Brown, who made it “a great resort for the society people, who are summering along the Gulf Coast and many are the pleasant parties and dances which take place in the large hall and dancing pavilion of the house.” Mr. Brown was said to have “...everything in the way of machinery pertaining to successful wine making, and has a wine cellar in one of the buildings on the estate, on which at the present writing, there is stored several thousand dollars of this wine.... Scuppemong champagne is celebrated all over Mississippi and Louisiana and all the surrounding country for its medical qualities and orders come to him every day for his celebrated goods, some people sending from Chicago, New York, and other Northern and Eastern cities.”
Sea Coast Echo
Other information can be gleaned from early editions of the Sea Coast Echo. Some examples follow:
In an article published on September 5, 1903, the vintner was identified as Frederick W. Braun (later spelled Brown) and his wife Anna, natives of Germany, who had purchased their land in 1867.
Another article, dated August 20, 1892, told of Mrs. Ella Hoyle and a number of friends who “...gave a delightful tally-ho ride and a very enjoyable picnic to Brown’s vineyard. The entire party was from Pass Christian.”
A few days later, another article listed others who had picnicked at the vineyard. An 1893 (August 19) article described another tally-ho ride to the arbor on 85 acres and mentioned that yearly 20 to 30 barrels of wine were made.