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OBLATE FATHERS MOVING
Mississippi Seminary Property Up For Sale
By TOM COOK Biloxi'Gulport Daily Herald Written For The Associated Press
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (AP)?A new chapter is being written in the history of a well-known Mississippi Gulf Coast landmark?the Pine Hills Seminary of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate is up for sale.
Father Superior Thomas Singer, seminary director, said the Oblates are asking $675,000 for the massive six - story building and the 69 acres of land.
The seminary is located on the northern shore of the Bay of St. Louis west of here.
To Omaha The Oblate Fathers, a missionary order which takes a vow of poverty, charity and obedience, are moving to Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. They expect to complete the move in September.
The fathers have operated the seminary for 15 years; it bears the title of Our Lady of the
Snows Scholasticate.
The furnishings of the seminary will be sold at public auction. It includes shop equipment used to teach self - sustaining trades to the brothers.
Since the days when a tribe of indians who were oyster fishermen roamed the area and dumped oyster shells into pits they dug along the beach the Pine Hills history is divided into four phases.
Plantation In 18S0
In 1850 William A. Whitfield founded the Shelly Plantation on the land. He used the oyster mounds to form a foundation and'outfitted the mansion with imported furniture, glass and rugs.
The land was cultivated in the midst of the Civil War and reconstruction saw trees, flowers and shrubs planted which drew visitors from throughout the South.
Very little is recorded about
the demise of the plantation, but i eventually nothing remained but J a few scattered shells where commercial shops exploited the rich shell banks.
In 1925 a group of northern industrialists formed a corporation and developed a $1-3 million luxury hotel, club house and golf course.
Latest In Fixtures
The latest in fixtures were included with each of the 180 rooms and the entire lobby covered with Persian rugs.
The resort?s success was shortlived with the unexpected re-routing of U.S. 90 to a bay i bridge nine miles away. The depression completed the downfall and the resort closed.	I
The U.S. Army used the build- ! ing in 1942 to house troops.
The Oblates tooX over in 1953 ! and, as they leave, highway en- ^ gineers are mapping Interstate- J 10 near the northern boundary t of the property.	1