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shore of Lake Pontchartrain."
From Charles L. Sullivan, THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST: PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE, p.34.
(Editor: Please note schooner service already in place in 1805 along the Pearl River. The Federal road must have run right through Pearlington. )
1811 AMERICAN FLAG FIRST RAISED AT PEARLINGTON
(Editor: Of all the territory known as West Florida, including coastal Mississippi, it was at Pearlington that the American flag was first raised. )
"On January 4, 1811 (Governor) Claiborne issued a proclamation declaring that portion of West Florida from the Mississippi and the Perdito to be annexed to the Territory of Orleans as the County of Feliciana. Of the six parishes that made up this new county, two encompassed the Gulf Coast."
"The area between the Pearl and Biloxi Bay became the Parish of Biloxi."
"Following the issuance of his proclamation, Claiborne instructed William "Fat Doctor" Flood, a prominent New Orleans planter and physician, to proceed to the coast and raise the American flag at each inhabited spot. The Governor further ordered Flood to appoint justices of the peace at those places and to present to them copies of the United States Constitution and copies of the territorial law code."
"On January 9, 1811, Flood docked the sloop Alligator at the Simeon Favre Farm on the east bank of the Pearl, raised the flag, and appointed Favre as Justice of the peace of Biloxi Parish."
From Charles L. Sullivan, THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST: PORTRAIT OF A PEOPLE, pp.35-36.
1814 THE WAR OF 1812
Pearlington played a role in the War of 1812. The battle for New Orleans between the Americans under Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory) and the British would decide the victor of this second war for American Independence.
Because of her strategic location, Pearlington became a staging area for Jackson’s launch into New Orleans.