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In the short distance between the low-lying Grand / Half Moon Island and the mainland there is a twenty-foot deep tidal trench that in some places actually exceeds thirty feet. This trench is one of the deepest places in the Mississippi Sound. Its depth is not due to manmade dredging, but the force of the Lake Ponchartrain water exiting The Rigoletes.
If the story of the whiskey keg is true, it appears that the Louisiana delegates knew exactly when and exactly where to drop the keg in the water.
There is more to this, however. What I have written here makes a good story and the odd location of the boundary and its relation to the physical aspects of the current gives the story some credence. But, and this is an important “but,” I have been unable to find any reliable document that testifies to the story’s truth.
In fact, the actual subject of the odd location of the boundary is not mentioned at all in the books I have had occasion to look at. There is a great deal written on the breaking up of the once large Hancock County to its present smaller county components. But there is nothing factual that I have been able to find on the why of the odd water boundary south of the Rigoletes.
If you know of anything beyond a story told by someone to someone else, we here in the Hancock Historical Society would like to hear it. We would be pleased to have you as our guest for lunch at one of our monthly scheduled noon meetings.