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Staff photo by Vernon Matthews
Symbol of piracy. .
A cross, the symbol of Christianity, is attached to one of the doors of Jean Lafitte’s Pirate House. Affixed to the cross is the pirates symbol of the skull and crossbones.
locks.
Nine brick fireplaces, with marble mantels, some of them imported by Lafitte, maintained the historically impressive house.
It is said to have hidden closets and secret openings into mysterious looking enclosures which has given much inspiration to the romantic minded dreamer.
More than once the house witnessed scenes of torture, and heard the last agonies of death from renegade pirates in the slave-made brick
chores and a spectrelike figure allegedly spoke and identified itself to a New Orleans aquaintance of the Listers' as Dominic You, a known principal henchman of Jean Lafitte.
To the same aquaintance, the circumstances and description of an elderly woman on a lane behind the house, revealed the visitant to be the owner of the house several hundred feet to the rear who had died some years earlier.
But the Listers don’t
connections with the Pirate House reach back through several generations.
Like many Waveland inhabitant’s, Mrs. Listers’ family stemmed from New Orleans and her grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Laudun, also lived in the Pirate House some years prior to their purchase of the home.
Mrs. Laudun, dubbed Little Rebel during the War of 1812 by a British regiment leader, re-
Photo courtesy of Bob Hubbard
Lafitte's Pirate House. .
Lafitte’s Pirate House, built in Waveland in 1802, was used as a headquarters for pirates of the Gulf Coast. Pirated booty
was transferred from ships to a strong-	open Gulf. Hurricane Camille destroyed
hold below the house through a secret	this historical old house August 17, 1969.
tunnel which ran from a sub-cellar to (he
The Star-Spangled Banner
streams over the land of the' free and the home of the brave, two centuries after the founding of this nation. As we look back on our history — that first struggle for independence and, subsequent struggles to build a nation — we can be proud of the many great achievements of the past, while we look
forward to the continued efforts of Americans in the years ahead to make our forefathers’ dream be fully realized. Theirs was the vision — a vision of “One nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.” On the 200th Anniversary of America’s birth, we salute her banner...long may it wave!
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