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1956 Map of Bay St. Louis

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Bay St. Louis
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1968
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1968

About this map

Bay St Louis and Pass Christian anchor this coastal landscape where the Jourdan River and Wolf River converge into St Louis Bay. The map highlights a significant concentration of religious and educational institutions during the mid-1950s, including St Stanislaus College, St Augustine Seminary, and the St Rose de Lima Sch. Along the shoreline, the Bay St Louis Bridge provides the primary highway link across the water, paralleled by the vital industrial corridor of the Louisville and Nashville RR.

Deeply etched into the land divisions are numerous family-named land grants such as the Alexander Dimitry Claim and Widow Morin Claim, which preserve the complex colonial and territorial history of Hancock and Harrison counties. From the urban center of Bay St Louis to the marshy reaches of Whitfield Bight and Cedar Bayou, the map documents a maritime economy defined by pilings, platforms, and the vast Mississippi Sound.