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JOHNSON OUTBOARD MOTORS
OWENS CRUISERS
CHAS. A. BREATH, Jr.
YACHT BROKER
Bay St. Louis, miss.
HISTORY OF .-iAY ST. LOUIS
Long before the advent of the French explorers,, the City of Bay St. Louis was: an Indian Village bearing, the name of Chi capo ula. Here the primitive children of the Choctaw-k'uskhogean family lived in a veritable happ^ hunting ground,, for the Mvine Designer gave this Gull' Caast a special touch of beauty; anc to suoplv the needs of His people,. he filled the waters with abundant fish and the forests with plentiiul game.
In all probability, Robert Cavalier de la Sallesss was the first white man to explore this part of the Coast. According to Jacques de la L.etairie, the official historian of this expedition, La Salle descended to the mouth of the Mississippi River; and on April 7, lo82, he rent to reconnoiter the shores of the Gulf of ? exico. In lb@3f Tonti the Faithful friend of Ea Salle came as far as the Gul: to seek tidings of his lost leader. On this trip Tonto examined the coast thirty leagues tabards Mexico, ana twenty five leagues towards Florida.	^
When Pierre Ip i.ioyne d’Iberville came to plant the Fleur ^ i Lis of France on the Gulf Cosst, the historian, tel. sxx us:	"Cn trie l£th of „
April,.: loQS , d’Iberville set out to visit a bay about nine leagues from Ship Island, to which he gave the name of St. Louis, But finding the t water very shallow there, he concluded to fix his settlement at Biloxi .J
^ This however was just a cis-ial visit to sound the depths of the water, and it remains for his brother, Jean Baptist le Loyne Bienville,, -to set foot on the lane and give 'it the present nar:,e. Let us read the account of this event as described oy P^enicault, the journalist fr.rr. the frigate Le Liarin: n!Tie shortly afterwards found a beautiful bay, about one leagne in width by four in circumference, which ees named Bay St. Louis, beceuse it was on the c.ay of t. Louis we arrived there. ™e hunted there three da^ s and killed fifty deer"The writer describes a trip up the Mississippi River, and on returning he writes:" "Next day we camped at the entrance of Hay St. Louis near a fountain of rater' that flows down from the hills, which Koyne Bienville named Belle Fountai ne.
We hilnted several days around this b- y and filled our boats with venison,, buffalo and other game. According to this evidence it is safe to say th&i 3a y -St. Louis was discovered and named by Bienville on the Feast of St Louis, August 25, lfc>9i, „
These first visits of d'Ib.-rville ana Bienville established a ha-ipy precedent, and soon colonists from 3iloxi found their way to th s land of plenty. T£e Hon. J. F. E, Claiborne, autho^ of Lisrissippi as a Province, Territory and State, was well acquainted with the history of Bay st,
Louis; for he lived foi^yearsbn a plantation a few miles south of the Bay, now called SiiiiiEmK Claiborne, Iv.iss. In an address delivered at Bay st. Louis,: July 4,. 1876, to commemorate tie centenary of the Declaration of Independencer : r, CLeilirorne said: "In December of the same year,