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Russell Guerin
A Creole in Mississippi
2009-12-23 11:13:24
Historical Marker for Brown’s Vineyard, Waveland
BROWNS VINEYARD
I Located at this site. Brown’s I Vineyard, established 1874, was a popular resort during the late I 19th and early 20th centuries.
The wine, produced on site from scuppernong grapes, was marketed and sold across the United States. The vineyard, which also provided entertainment, was forced to close in 1920 due to Prohibition.
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Before Katrina, Hwy. 90, Waveland
(before Katrina)
Sources of Information Along the Gulf
In 1895, the book entitled Along the Gulf was published by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in order to promote travel along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Among other areas, one attraction was called Brown’s Vineyard. It was called “a veritable garden of beauty,” crediting Mr. Brown with having “...planted almost exclusively the famous Scuppernong Grapes [on] ninety acres of the finest land in this section of the country.”
The article then narrated that the vineyard was started 35 years before by Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Brown, who made it “a great resort for the society people, who are summering along the Gulf Coast and many are the pleasant parties and dances which take place in the large hall and dancing pavilion of the house.” Mr. Brown was said to have “...everything in the way of machinery pertaining to successful wine making, and has a wine cellar in one of the buildings on the estate, on which at the present writing, there is stored several thousand dollars of this wine.... Scuppernong champagne is celebrated all over Mississippi and Louisiana and all the surrounding country for its medical qualities and orders come to him every day for his celebrated goods, some people sending from Chicago, New York, and other Northern and Eastern cities.”
Sea Coast Echo
http://www.russguerin.com/history/historical-marker-for-browns-vineyard-waveland/