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KILN
Located about 13 miles northwest of Bay St Louis, the date of the settlement is not known but | the town was named for the immense kilns where the original French settlers burned charcoal to sell. Many of the fireplaces at that time were built' with small openings to burn charcoal brickets instead of logs.
Charcoal burning was superseded by sawmilling when in 1870, Samuel L. Favre built a sawmill and i operated it along with a general store. In 1908 the W. W. Carre Lumber Company bought this mill site ^ and moved all the old homes from the river bank. In their place one of the largest sawmills in the South was erected. The lumber mill burned in, 1912 and in 1913 the remaining interests werei purchased by the Edward Hines Lumber Company. The logging railraod was then extended to Lumberton, passengertrains were added, and the company built a hospital and a fifty-room hotel
During Prohibition the territory around Kiln was the center of a moonshining industry and was known for its quality of whiskey as far north as Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is said that one boat alone brought 1,000 sacks of sugar a week here for the manufacture of the famous Kiln “Shinny.” Strange tales of giant stills hidden under sawdust piles, and rumored connections of Kiln with Chicago’s Capone Gang still afford interest.