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Page 9 At 706 South Beach we'll see the Aker's Home. It's the two story pink cottage, known as "the Spanish Custom House", and it is probably the oldest building in Bay St. Louis. The date 1787 is inscribed in the brickwork. The building is solid brick with stucco finish. From the Spanish period, of course. 806 Sibuth Beach, long known as "Nellie's Villa" has been renamed "Marian Oaks" by the Baxter's — present owners of this refined Greek Revival of the late 1850's. e now approaching Christ Episcopal Church — 912 South Beach, sitting a bit back from the Beach, erected in 1972 — quite modern and it received an architectural award for excellency. Here's the Brignac Estate — beautiful home with exellent wroght iron details. It is a shame we have to pass up some of the interesting homes on Bay St. Louis' side streets: For example "Misty Oaks" on Washington, some Queen Anne cottages down by the Railroad at Second Street built by Eugene Ray, a free man of color — But time is limited and we must see something of Waveland, referred to as "Little New Orleans" a fast-growing town with excellent shopping centers, home of the Nerieds all-women Carnival crew with its spectacular parade and ball each season; the Waveland Town Hall on Coleman Avenue which M3Q£ once/a public school; and the Ladner memorial fishing ‘ * ' ...... of unparalleled record! ) We must als0 visit Port Bienville, the Mississippi Test Facility, ^^T/Ogtown, the Pearlington area, once location of the World's Largest Saw Mill, and the Kiln, Ma£2GC(XacX named for its early industry of tar and charcoal kilns and later well known during prohibition days housed Ladner, eight times
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