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By JOE PILET ULMAN AVENUE In the 80’s sheep grazing-wool owing was a combined dustry in Waveland and Ijoining sections. Alfred 1 m •'	\ established
avei. /s largest and most itstanding industry of that ly, the Ulman Woolen Mills, x-ated on Nicholson Avenue, -mediately west of the lilroad tracks, these mills ere of frame construction, rincipal articles anufactured were woolen ankets and shawls.
I.arge black and white plaid iawls were in block pattern id very popular. Said to be ever lasting”. Ulman’s ther, James A. Ulman, was ayor of Bay St. I-ouis and is jried in Cedar	Rest
?metery. The Ulman's home as ( d Rosedale. When e mi., tvas dismantled and Id, a row of houses on icholson Avenue	were
instructed with	the
aterials.
TOULME John B. Toulme, a itive of France, migrated to
San Domingo. Because of an insurrection he was forced to leave, so he and his slaves landed in Mobile and from there came to Bay St. Ix>uis in the early 1800’s. In Bay St. Louis he was married to Evonia Viclerie Saucier.
His capital at this time was said to have been $2,500. He bought an unfinished two room wooden structure at the corner of Union Street, weatherboarded one room and here started married life.
He became the first person to engage in mercantile business in Bay St. Louis and as years passed he accumulated a fortune. He habitually put aside every $20 gold piece he received and on New Year’s Day he divided this money among his children.
From this money one of his daughters, (the late Mrs. John A. Breath), bought a lot on Main Street. John Toulme acquired large tracts of land in New Orleans, Mobile and
Bay St. Louis.
His gift to the city was the land where the Masonic Temple stands, the ground for the Court House, The Methodist Church and the Cedar Rest Cemetery.
He fathered six daughers and a son, John V. Toulme.
The son, John V., was the first man to organize a regiment of soldiers from Hancock County to enlist in the Civil War. He also served as Mayor of Bay St. Louis.
In Cedar Rest Cemetery on the old Toulme tomb is the inscription “ICI Reposent, J.B. Toulme, ne a Nantes Department de la I-oise In-ferieure, decede le 17 Janviere 1831 a l’age de 81 ans.” deMONTLUZIN AVF,. The history of the de Montluzin family goes back to 1300 in France. It was a family of the military aristocracy, each generation contributing at least one man to the services of the King.
During the French Revolution Louis Francois Gabriel de Montluzin as an
aristrocrat had to flee for his life from the guillotine and his son, Lt. Louis de Montluzin fought for many years as a cavalier in the army of Napoleon, one of the few survivors of Napoleon’s disasterous campaign in Russia, he took part in the Battle of Waterloo and was personally decorated by the Emperor with the Cross of Saint Louis.
In 1824 he also received from Louis XVIII the I-egion of Honor medal, and in 1827 from Charles X the second ctoss of Saint Louis. Louis de Montluzin’s son, I.udovic Adrian, became a journalist rather than a soldier and was a friend of Victor Hugo.
In 1854 he brought his family to Louisiana and taught in a school in Convent, later establishing a school for boys in New Orleans. Ill health brought him to the health resort of Bay St. Louis.
In 1878 in Bay St. Louis he opened a small apothecary shop. His son, Rene, became
known as the “oldest active pharmacist in Mississippi when he celebrated his 93rd birthday.
His son, the late Rene, Jr., carefully preserved the proud family history and had planned a celebration in 1978 marking the Centennial of de Montluzin’s Drug Store, de Montluzin Avenue is a monument to the splendid and unselfish services of this very fine family.
Rene, Sr., born in 1865 and died in 1959 gave to the City of Bay St. Louis land to be used as the first long block of de Montluzin Avenue.
JULIA STREET: Among the earliest land grants of Bay St. Louis is that of Melite la Sassier. It dates back to 1786. The late Jesse Cowand purchased from la Sassier “all this tract lying on the water front known as the Cowand-Field cotton plantation.”.
Two children of Jesse Cowand, Julia and her brother Charles,, were inheritors of a part of this large tract. With generosity and public spirited desire to help with the development of Bay St. I -ouis -
-	then known as Shieldsboro -they gave a strip of land starting at the Bay of St. Louis and extending to the Jourdan River for the purpose of building a street.
The name Julia was given this street in recognition of the Cowand’ families contribution.
Dr. Stephen S. Herricks of New Orleans. The couple moved to California. Malcolm Cowand, a great nephew of Julia still maintains a home on Julia Street, which has the distinction of being the only street running all the way from the Bay of St. Louis to the Jourdan River.
Early maps of Bay St. Louis (Shieldsboro) show Dunbar Avenue as Second Street.
MCDONALD LANE: W.A. McDonald, founder of the company, W.A. McDonald & Sons, moved from Holly Springs, Mississippi in the year 1904.
Together with his sons, C.C. and John, the McDonalds engaged in a variety of thriving businesses serving the coastal area.
During the sawmill days oxfeed was a “best seller,” also Queensboro wagons, and a pink-ice gingerbread known as the “stage plank”.
These merchants were well known throughout the state for tabacco sales, and as late as the 1930’s they ordered a two-carload lot of Octogon soap.
Those were the days of the “Gold Dust Twins,” a washing powder guaranteed to bleach the clothing and redden the hands.
McDonald Lane begins with the “Old McDonald Place,” 502 North Beach, and extends to Second Street.
Through the years the McDonalds have reflected
becoming builders, real estate dealers,'' fjml^e^^uppliefs,’ hardware mer&ante?et<h^;!
The record of their buariess, civic; ‘and ‘<*br3i'services to
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