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<p class="rtecenter"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:14px">19th Century</span></span></strong></p>

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<p class="rtecenter"><strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">SCENERY</span></span></strong></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Casino-East Beach Casino Row from Keller.jpg" style="height:165px; width:300px" /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Casino-Central Beach-from Keller Avenue-Oct. 2013.jpg" style="height:159px; width:300px" /></p>

<p><strong><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Casino Row-Point Cadet &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Casino Row-Central Beach</span></span></strong></p>

<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[from Lee Street-October 2013] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[from Lee Street-October 2013]</span></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/bridge-Biloxi-Ocean Springs-Nov. 2013..jpg" style="height:150px; width:200px" /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/bridge-Biloxi-Ocean Springs3-Nov. 2013..jpg" style="height:111px; width:250px" /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/bridge-Biloxi-Ocean Springs2-Nov. 2013._0.jpg" style="height:124px; width:200px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><strong><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Biloxi Bay Bridge-November 2013</span></strong></p>

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<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong>SEAFOOD INDUSTRY</strong></span></span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi schooner-Mike Sekul2-1992_1.jpg" style="height:182px; width:300px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong><em>Mike Sekul</em></strong>, <strong>Biloxi schooner, built 1992 for the City of Biloxi on Clay Point</strong></span></span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px"><strong>by Nelious 'Neil' C. Covacevich</strong> (1920-2011) &nbsp;[image February 1992 by Ray L. Bellande]</span><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi-oyster tongers off Deer Isle-1935_1.jpg" style="height:300px; width:239px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">BILOXI OYSTER TONGERS off DEER ISLAND</span></strong></p>

<p class="rtejustify"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">[image by <strong>Anthony V. Ragusin </strong>(1902-1997) made November 24, 1935. &nbsp;courtesy of the CC Tex Hamill Collection-MGCCC-Perkinston, Ms. Archives and Charles L. Sullivan, Professor Emeritus and MGCCC Archivist]</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;&nbsp; This image was made in November 1935 by A.V. 'Tony' Ragusin, 'Mr. Biloxi'. &nbsp;In December 2010, Geraldine Hankins Johnson (1935-2010) identified these oystermen:[L-R: James Dixon Hankins (1910-1998) and Alfred L. Harris (1886-1966)]. Geraldine Hankins Johnson was the daughter of James D. Hankins and Eunice Harris (1915-2000). &nbsp;Eunice was the daughter of Alfred L. Harris and ?</span></span></p>

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<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Schooner-schooner capt.-Tom Walker.jpg" style="height:300px; width:179px" /><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi schooner man.jpg-Tom Walker.jpg" style="height:178px; width:300px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Schooner music-Tom walker-2011_0.jpg" style="height:350px; width:198px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong>BILOXI BOATMEN circa 1910</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">[Courtesy of Tom Walker (metalworkertom@yahoo.com). &nbsp;These images from the collection of Elsie Bosarge m. John Manduffie and later married Jules 'Boulo' Fountain. &nbsp;Please contact me or Tom Walker, if you can identify these Biloxi sailors. &nbsp;Possibly crew members of the <em><strong>Emma Harvey. &nbsp;</strong></em>Merci beaucoup!]</span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi schooner-Albert Baldwin-Rusty Barnes.JPG" style="height:196px; width:300px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">The <u><strong><em>William Martin</em></strong></u></span></span></p>

<p class="rtejustify"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The <u><strong><em>William Martin</em></strong></u>&nbsp;was primarily freight schooner hauling charcoal, naval stores, and mercantile goods to and fro from Coastal Mississippi to New Orleans.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:12px">&nbsp; She was owned by William Westfall of Vancleave, Jackson County, Mississippi.[Image courtesy of Russell Barnes, Biloxi, Mississippi]</span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi schooner-Albert Baldwin-ca 1940.jpg" style="height:114px; width:300px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">The <u><strong><em>Albert Baldwin</em></strong></u></span></span></p>

<p class="rtejustify"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp; &nbsp;The <u><strong><em>Albert Baldwin</em></strong></u> was in 1894 built at Handsboro, Missisippi by Mateo Martinolich (1861-1934) at his shipyard on Bayou Bernard for Joseph M. Stiglets of Stonewall, Harrison County, Mississippi. &nbsp;The <u><em><strong>Albert Baldwin</strong></em></u> was 65 feet long, had a 24.4-foot beam with a hold depth of 5 feet. &nbsp;She was coverted to motor power as this later images depicts.[Image from Ray L. Bellande and information courtesy of Russell Barnes, Biloxi, Mississippi]</span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi schooner-Emma Harvey.JPG" style="height:127px; width:300px" /></p>

<div class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">The <u><em><strong>Emma Harvey</strong></em></u></span></span></div>

<div class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">[Ray L. Bellande images. &nbsp;The vessel at Cedar Point, Mobile County, Alabama circa 1960?]</span></span></div>

<div><span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">The</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong><em>Emma Harvey</em></strong></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">was a Biloxi schooner utilized in the shrimp and oyster industry of the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts in the early years of this century.&nbsp; She was built by <strong>Casimir J. Harvey</strong> (1845-1904) at his Back Bay, now D'Iberville, shipyard probably in the 1890's, and was named for his youngest daughter, <strong>Emma Agnes Harvey</strong> (1889-1968).&nbsp; Although the physical dimensions of the Emma Harvey are not known, it is documented in Chattel Book 2, p. 232 of the Chancery Clerk's Office of Harrison County that Casimir Harvey conveyed a schooner on May 25, 1889, to Harry T. Howard.&nbsp; The boat was called the <strong><em>H.T. Howard</em></strong>, and was thirty six feet in length, fourteen and two sixteenth feet in breadth, three feet deep, and weighed eight and thirteen one hundredths tons. &nbsp;After the Dauphin Island Causeway was completed in the 1950s, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong><em>Emma Harvey</em>&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">plied the bay and Gulf waters as a shrimp trawler.&nbsp; According to the indigenous people of coastal Alabama, the high tides and strong winds of Hurricane Frederick on September 12, 1979, blew the Casmir Harvey built schooner into the wide expanses of the Mon Island marsh or Portersville Bay to the west of cedar Point.&nbsp; The fate or position of the</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong><em>Emma Harvey</em></strong></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">is presently unknown, but it is generally held that the Biloxi built schooner was destroyed by Hurricane Frederick.</span></span></div>

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<div class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:12px"><u><em><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong>FAIRY QUEEN </strong></span></em></u></span></div>

<div class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif">[moored in Old Fort Bayou at Ocean Springs]</span></span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px">For nearly three decades, the </span><em><strong><u>Fairy Queen</u></strong> (built 1890 by Casmir Harvey)</em><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px"> was a familiar sight to residents of coastal West Jackson County as it plied the waters of Fort Bayou and Biloxi Bay.&nbsp; W.W.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px">Branigar, brother of Harvey W. Branigar (1875-1953), a founder of Gulf Hills in 1926, organized the <strong>Fairy Queen Ship Company in 1927</strong>.&nbsp; It served that verdant resort as a pleasure craft to entertain guests. &nbsp;The <strong><em>Fairy Queen</em></strong>, Gulf Hill’s pleasure yacht, also embarked from the Biloxi Yacht Club with passengers and returned at sunset to the resort on Old Fort Bayou north of Ocean Springs.</span></div>

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<p class="rtecenter"><u><em><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:14px">AUGUST</span></span></strong></em></u></p>

<p><span style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:16px">In 1911, J.D. Covacevich built two identical schooners named <u><strong><em>July </em></strong></u>and <em><strong><u>August.</u></strong></em> This photo is post&nbsp;1933 after she had been refitted with an engine. Note the alpha numeric state registration number. She measured less than 15 tons and was thus able to opt for the state registration as opposed to the federal registration she had when built. This option began circa 1933.[Comments of Russell Barnes, Biloxi historian in June 2011]</span><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Tarpon image2-DH. Aug. 3%2C 1950%2C p. 5..jpg" style="height:400px; width:191px" /></p>

<div class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">[see <em>The Daily Herald</em>, August 3, 1950, p. 5]</span></span></div>

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<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong>CASINO INDUSTRY</strong></span></span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><strong>IMPERIAL PALACE</strong></span></span></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi-Back Bay Mission facde-Oct.1995.jpg" style="height:210px; width:300px" /></p>

<p class="rtecenter"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><strong>EVANGELICAL and REFORMED BACK BAY MISSION</strong> [image October 1995-Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></p>

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