Man behind The Blind Tiger opening a new beach restaurant in this Mississippi Coast downtown
The Sand Bar, a new seafood restaurant, will open on Waveland’s Coleman Avenue next month. Here’s what to know.
Sep 16, 2026Open source
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Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Hancock. Associated ZIP codes: 39520, 39521.
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This Gulf Coast downtown never recovered from Katrina. Now signs of hope are finally emerging.
Coleman Avenue in Waveland is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina even as Bay St. Louis surges with hotels, bars and restaurants on the Mississippi Coast.
Aug 28, 2026Open source
Diamondhead Nears Launch of City Police Force
City leaders in Diamondhead, Mississippi, plan to hire a police chief this month as the city moves closer to creating its own police department.
May 6, 2026Open source
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As Mississippi’s vote count drags on, voters say they were marked inactive in error
Many voters in Mississippi's close Senate race said they were caught by surprise when they learned they would have to vote by affidavit because their registr...
Nov 7, 2026Open source
Mississippi Democrats seek injunctive relief for alleged voting issues in DeSoto County
With 99% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, DeSoto County went blue, backing Democrat nominee Scott Colom over incumbent Republican Senator Cind...
Nov 6, 2026Open source
Mississippi GOP chair vows to ‘fight like hell’ in Senate midterm vote counting
Mississippi GOP chair vows to ‘fight like hell’ in Senate midterm vote counting
Nov 6, 2026Open source
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Bay Saint Louis is in Hancock County, Mississippi.
Region: Mississippi Gulf Coast
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39520, 39521
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As Mississippi’s vote count drags on, voters say they were marked inactive in error
Many voters in Mississippi's close Senate race said they were caught by surprise when they learned they would have to vote by affidavit because their registr...
Nov 7, 2026Open source
Mississippi Democrats seek injunctive relief for alleged voting issues in DeSoto County
With 99% of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, DeSoto County went blue, backing Democrat nominee Scott Colom over incumbent Republican Senator Cind...
Nov 6, 2026Open source
Mississippi GOP chair vows to ‘fight like hell’ in Senate midterm vote counting
Mississippi GOP chair vows to ‘fight like hell’ in Senate midterm vote counting
Nov 6, 2026Open source
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Bay St. Louis, the seat of Hancock County, began as a French settlement on the west shore of the bay that Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville explored on August 25, 1699, and named for King Louis IX of France. French colonists, and the enslaved Africans they brought to work their plantations, gave the area a Creole and largely Catholic character that it still keeps. The house later called the Old Spanish Customs House, believed to have been built by French colonist Hyacinth Caron in 1787 according to an inscription in its brickwork, was perhaps the oldest building in town until Hurricane Katrina destroyed it in 2005.
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Until 1875 the town was called Shieldsborough, after early settler Thomas Shields. On December 14, 1814, five U.S. gunboats fought a British fleet entering nearby Lake Borgne, the last naval defense before Andrew Jackson's victory at New Orleans. The Mississippi Legislature incorporated Shieldsborough on January 21, 1818, and the town was renamed Bay St. Louis in 1875. St. Augustine's Seminary, founded in Greenville in 1920 by the Divine Word Missionaries to train missionary brothers and priests, moved here in 1923 and is the oldest existing Catholic seminary in Mississippi. The town took the full force of two great hurricanes. On August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille's eye passed over neighboring Waveland, and on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made its final landfall just west of Bay St. Louis with a storm surge of about 28 feet. The old ridge along the former route of U.S. 90, the Old Spanish Trail, stood high enough to escape the surge. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Old Shieldsborough; Naval Battle of Bay St. Louis; Old Spanish Customs House; St. Augustine's Seminary (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) The Historical Marker Database: Jean Baptiste le Moyne Sieur de Bienville Wikipedia: Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
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30.3242750, -89.3973560
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