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The Indians, few in number, were friendly with the planters, and often came in from the woods with presents of
game ?or_the whites. _________
, .Bears, wolves, wild cats arfc deers swarmed through the forests, but seldom did any harm - save a wolf that would steal a sheep once in a while, or a bear that would slip into the planter?s field and steal an armful of corn for his supper. But the animals, like the poor Choctaw, have passed out of Bay St. Louis, and out of our memories also.
Men who were prominent in the annals of Shieldsboro before the Civil War were Dimetry Canna, a Greek by birth, Noel Jourdan - for whom the gentle reed-bordered stream emptying into the bay just above Dunbar?s Canning Factory was named - Elihu Carver, Father Buteaux, John O?Brien, Jesse Cowand, Joseph Fields, Willis H. Arnold, Alexander Bookter, J. B. Toulme, J. Monet, and many others, of whom the writer would like to mention, but has no record of these names.
In the foregoing period written of, Augusta was the county seat, and the people of Shieldsboro had to journey up there to have their differences settled, which must have been very inconvenient, but
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Shieldsboro continued prosperous until the Civil War broke out; then, like the rest of the South, the,.little town
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After the war, the once rich planter came home to ruin and desolation, he lost heart, and Shieldsboro became a grave yard of dead hopes with apparently no future before her, when lo and behold! the Louisville & Nashville Railroad invaded the town, and a new era of prosperity began.
As in the case of Bay St. Louis now, Shieldsboro also had her few ?moss backs? who fought against the progress of the railroad as if it were an enemy instead of the means of building up the town more than ever before.
But the railroad ?came, saw and conquered? and since then Shieldsboro became Bay St. Louis.
With the advent of the railroad came a gradual change for the better to Bay St. Louis. More people came to live here; the woods were cleared away; streets were laid out; hotels were built. But the most wonderful progress of all has taken place within the past ten years - nay, even the past five years, and now the future of our town is painted in glowing colors on
snores our town could not boast a local newspaper. The nearest journal was ?The Sea Shore Sentinel?, published
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publication, responses have arrived from every direction.
Not long after the Echo Building was finished its
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' These days two splendid local ?newspapers, The Sea Coast Echo and the Gulf Coast Progress, are in circulation.
In the summer of 1903 the Sea Coast Echo moved into its new home, an elegant two story brick structure at the corner of Front and State streets.
September of the same year Editor Moreau issued a magazine of The Sea Coast Echo, setting forth the advantages of ?The Bay? in every possible way. These magazines went the ways of the four winds of heaven, and
?ii in? J nt-nnr was let out iru offices, while the! renTarmhg space ' on -its ground floor became The Merchants Bank, an institution which is proving most successful.
In the fall of the year just dead The Peerless Oyster Co., a new concern, sprang up as if by magic. At the same time The Coast Furniture and Supply Co. began its existence in a handsome two-story building at the corner of Front and Goodchildren streets.
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