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1956 Map of Bay St. Louis

Name: 1956 Topographic Map of Bay St. Louis
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1971
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1971

About this map

St Louis Bay serves as the central focal point of this coastal survey, dividing the peninsula of Bay St Louis from Henderson Point and the neighboring shoreline of Pass Christian. The 1971 photorevisions, indicated in purple, highlight the post-war expansion of residential streets and infrastructure, particularly the widening of the Bay St Louis Bridge and development around Waveland. Educational and religious institutions are prominent landmarks, including St Stanislaus College and the St Augustine Seminary near the waterfront.

The industrial and maritime character of the Mississippi Sound is evident in the alignment of the Louisville and Nashville RR and the U S Merchant Marine Sch. Further north, the landscape transitions to the marshy reaches of the Wolf River and Jourdan River, where established claims like the Alexander Dimitry Claim and Charles Asman Claim reveal the complex history of local land ownership along the bayous.