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OFFSHORE _^LAND HARBORS — PLANS
FOR RAILROAD THROUGH FORESTS — HANDSBORO --GULF VIEW AND TEGARDEN HOTELS — SHEEP RAISING -VINEYARDS AND AVAILABLE FARM LAND MACKFREL FISHING <5c TARPON EXCITEME 1886
Louisville & Nashville R. R.
Mississippi City, Miss. 1886
Promotion of Ktsslsst’onl City
In the years of our Lord. 1835*01^836, or little more than half a century ago, when the boom of modern railroad building had not yet struck the South, and men traveled from the interior to the sea in wide lumbering family coaches or in creaking mule wagons covered with white canvas awnings, a few capitalists of Mississippi incubated a great scheme. They were correct in the ideas they cherished, but they were ahead of their time fifty years; and their children may yet see their great project an accomplished fact.
About the time designated three directors of an organization called the Gulf anj Shin Island BallrLoad-jComnanv. r,r. Samuel Puckett, Mr. Alsbury,^anTColin McRae, Esq., a brother of one of the Mississippi governors, visited this seacoast, selected the present site of Mississippi City as the terminus of their projected road, had a large city laid off in lots, and spent §^0,^£LXa~l«ying ha* brick foundations of a hotel of.jjiaiiijajitli-ud-imensions, the material of whose tasement was subsequently removed and used for other purposes than that originally contemplated.
The celebrated Erandon Bank furnished the funds for all these expenditures, and was to pur^p^Tie^orT^^fo'i' building the road. Mississippians who have read of I.aw and the Mississippi scheme, or of the South Sea Bubble, are more interested in - era of "Shocka Jones" and of the famous Brandon Bank in which th-re were millions on paper.
Summer Watering Place
The boost of the enterprising speculators failed to make the pine forest along the shore disappear immediately and an immense commercial port rise in its place, built by the rangic of money; tut it brought the spot into notice as a fine sigh: for a summer watering-place, and soon a beautiful village grew where the great city was to be.