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wood on North Beach, Bay St. Louis, was begun by Jesse Cowand but work was halted when the owneh went to fight in the War of 1812. Completed in 1828, the house was part of the Cowand-Field Cotton plantation and at one time, a profitable variety of Sea Island cotton was raised on the surrounding acreage. The house, built partially of brick which
built on land bought by Cowand from the La Sas-sier family who received the original grant in 1786. Indian shell mounds, from which the builders obtained lime for mortar, were on the property when the house was built. The house is presently owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jack McComiskey.
Model home.
Staff photo by Vernon Matthews
First displayed as a model home at the Louisiana Exposition during the 1890’s, the present home of Mrs. Waldo Otis, 418 South Beach, Bay St. Louis,
was dismantled after the expo and transported by barge to Its present location where it was re-er-ected by the Olson family.
Statesmen give thoughts on liberty
Antebellum home. . .
The home of Mrs. Lucien M. Gex, 224 North Beach, Bay St. Louis, is the original manor house of the Carroll Plantation, built prior to 1849 on a land grant. The walls, both on the interior and exterior,
Staff photo by Vernon Matthews
are reinforced with brick up to eight feet, reportedly for hurricane protection and as a guard against Indian invasion during the home's early days.
LIBERTY
LITERATURE
One lasting symbol to the American Revolution is still in use today. Though hardly thought of as revolutionary, Noah Webster designed the first American Dictionary as a revolutionary act of getting rid of everything British.
This famous lexicographer had strong
memories of the British rule when, as a young man in his twenties, the Revolution broke out. His paramount desire for American education was the teaching of history in schools, and accordingly, the most important subject taught would be the Revolution, Noah Webster, essayist and fighter for American Independ-
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ence with his pen — all for the cause of liberty.
SONG OF LIBERTY
Written in 1768 by John Dickinson to unite Colonists against British oppression. Popu-
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