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Steamer CREOLE—Win- ^OtSSKL. ter arrangemtnt, for New Orleans and all intermediate places—the splendid Low Pressure Packet Steamer CREOLE, Reuben Post, mas-ter, built expressly far the lake trade, with superior accommodations will leave OceanSprings as follows:
OCEAN Sf RINGS.
Weds’day ev’n 5pm Friday morning 5am Sunday evening 5pm Passage. Cabin $3,
NEW ORLEANS.
Tuesday ev’n 4pm Thursday	9 am
Saturday	4pm
Deck ^1.25. Children
and servants half price. The free Kst to all coast places is suspended.	Jan 6th-tf
Orleans ana MODiie uieam man Line Co. Later he personally took command of their steamer Florida and thus acquired the title of captain. Many of Grant's descendants still thrive on the coast he helped to build.
These early steamboats used for fuePvvoocr-which was contracted for and stacked at intervals along the river bank. Fresh water for the Doiler was pumped from the rivers, but on the Gulf Coast runs the boats carried fresh water tanks which had to be refilled every few hours. It is very probable that these wood and water stops contributed to the early development of Mississippi Coast towns.
Stores, hotels and restaurants grewup around the steamboat landing, which apparently was at Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian. An 1855 advertisement of Charles Bellman's drug store gave the address at “the East end of the plank walk, Biloxi, Mississipppi.” It is easy to speculate that the steamboat landing at Biloxi was on the pass, with the-early stores lined along a plank walk extending west from what is now Bellman Street.
At Pascagoula the steamboat landing was near the mouth of the river. It is not known how Missis-i sipipi City and Handsboro developed in this era. Gulfport and Long Be?,ch came later.
In„ the March 4, 1855, issue of the Occlan Springs Gazzette the steamer Creole carried an advertiser: nent giving its schedule, rates ftnd other information. The running; I time to New Orleans was eigh'.;;.i hours. A news item stated th- 'i the Creole will be off the run forr, several months for repairs, and he | T place will be taken by the s!::-eamer California.
. Another news item reported the l- progress of construction of the new
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The Creole ...
The Creole, a steamer operating between Ocean Springs and
New Orleans, could make the trip in eight hours.
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