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BAY SAINT LOUIS
MISSISSIPPI
Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville camped on the bluffs at the Gulf's edge in 1699 at a place the Indians called Chicapoula. He named the site Bay Saint Louis after King Louis IX of France. A Spanish land grant to Thomas Shields in 1789 changed the town's name to Shieldsboro but the name reverted to Bay Saint Louis in 1875.
In December 1699, d'Iberville's brother, Jean Baptiste LeMoyne Bienville constructed the fist building, a fort, which was located on the beach near present day deMontluzin Street.
During the following 218 years the area came under the controll of France, Spain, England, the Territory of West Florida and the Mississippi Territory. In January 1818, Bay Saint Louis became the first incorporated city in the new State of Mississippi.
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