Twentieth Century Coast Edition of the Biloxi Daily Herald
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Excerpt from Twentieth Century Coast Edition of the Biloxi Daily Herald: Historical and Biographical Biloxi is an Indian name, and means in English "Broken Pot." The significance of it is far behind this latter day and sleeps with Braves, whose battle ground it was, and whose burial place it is. Long decades ago, before Dr. Franklin had encased lightning in a bottle, and Prof. Morse had given it tongue and bade it speak its varied languages to all the world; in the days when a railroad train was a myth and the telephone but a dreamer´s vision, Biloxi had a being. Even then it was the capital of the Province of Louisiana. The dwellers of this early seat of government may have been unfledged and primitive pilgrims from other lands, but here they lived and dreamed under the soft light of the southern sky, little knowing ´ere the last vestige of their generation had passed away the virgin forest that they knew would be gone and in its stead would be every evidence of Christian civilization and every stamp of progress, and that the places that were then mellow under the pale glimmer of an autumn moon would glitter under the flash of caged and obedient electricity. The days of miracles, though far away in the twilight of centuries, had not passed, and from a handful of French colonists under the command of Iberville, has grown steadily and surely a modern city of progress and prosperity, peopled by a brave, energetic and progressive manhood and a pure, faithful and lovely womanhood, unsurpassed by none, unrivaled by few. In February, 1699, Lemoyne d´Iberville, a French nobleman holding a commission from King Louis XII, after a long and stormy passage, landed at what we now know as Ship Island, and established temporary headquarters. From here he began making explorations for a suitable place for the location of the colony that his commission directed him to establish. He made many expeditions, even going up the Mississippi River, hundreds of miles, perhaps, as far as Fort Nogales, the present City of Vicksburg, before he found a suitable location. He finally selected a point on the northeast side of Back Bay of Biloxi, now a portion of the town of Ocean Springs; here he erected a Fort, which in honor of Count Maurepas he named Fort Maurepas. This was the first white settlement in the State of Mississippi. The Fort was completed in April, 1699, and the first religious ceremony ever held in Mississippi was had, mass being then and there celebrated by Father Donay, a Franciscan priest and a confrere of La Salle. For reasons untold by the historian of that time, the colony and Fort on its first sight was abandoned, and transferred to Dauphine Island near Mobile, where they remained for about twenty years. In December, 1720, Beinville, who, by the death of Sauvole, the first commandant of the Colony, became commandant, decided to entirely abandon the first site or Old Biloxi and to reestablish the colony at and transfer the seat of government to "New Biloxi", some six miles away from the first site. This was done in September, 1721, and from this time, until 1723, Biloxi was the actual and legal capital of the Province of Louisiana. The Governor or Commandant´s first office was in an old ware house, that had been made suitable by the engineer, who had been sent ahead. The first or "Old Biloxi" was the first settlement on the Coast line from Tampico to Pensacola, the latter city being only a few months the older. Biloxi as a capital city was no less gay than the other cities that have claimed and still claim this honored distinction. Cavaliers with waving plumes and dangling swords and courtly graces were no less attractive to the fair daughters of Eve than are their brothers of this latter day, even though the plumes and cloaks and swaying swords have given place to the Krag-J
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