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In a French map dated 1732, published in appears what must have been and Indian path that begins just west ,of Bayou Caddy, then crosses that Bayou heading roughly northwest, and somewhere north of the Bay of St.
Louis runs north. There are indicated eight very small inlets
and Pearl River, about the same number
Whi le ng, it
from the Mulatto Bayou This could have traversed what is now called Point Clear Island but is not an island at all, but land of some elevation running west from Bayou Caddy and separating two marshes. The path might well have included the known Rangia shell midden just north of the mouth of Bayou Caddy, on the east bank.
between Bayou Caddy of small waterways showing on current nautical maps the existence of such an Indian path may be puzzlin may have been the land route east area
lother map, drawn between 1738 and 1769, essentially ites the above chart, and includes the Indian path, tin a later version, dated 1795, is probably a copy larlier map, but it clearly shows the northern extreme path to be the "Road to the Chactaws." All of these lentify what appears to be Bayou Caddy ad Ouka-taoulou It is also known that Hwy. 604, to Pearlington .It over an old Indian trail^
iorpe historical evidervgs--.that a Hancock County 1820 under the sji-prervi>^ion of Lt^^&cJTT* Zacjiarry ,n, in Mississippi Gulf Coast, J^dls of Taylor's S. Infant^Ty, consist ingXcji^/OO men, ^dotting
the west Ts~
shown/in Shieldsborough to Madisonvilie, La
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ah 1834 map-, in Pearlington and . , ami the other
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Judging from the Jackson letters of the 1850's, it would seem that the road they took to Shieldsborough from Clifton was what is now Lower Bay Road. It would—seem—1 ngi ra-1 ke—arssunre—tha-fc—rtr-Tra-s—alrso—the—rxxad—e-u-fe—by Taylor 1 s—men..
Wailes reported that the distance from Judge DanielIs to Asa Russ "on the Lake Shore," now known to be Buccaneer Park, was 14 miles.
There is mention in the Gainesville Advocate of February 21, 1846, that "Gainesville citizens have to travel 25 to 30 miles over a bad road" to go the the courthouse in Shieldsborough