Bay Saint Louis

Bay Saint Louis

      city, seat (1860) of Hancock county, southern Mississippi, U.S. It lies along Mississippi Sound (an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico (Mexico, Gulf of)) at the entrance to St. Louis Bay, 58 miles (93 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana.

      The site was part of a 1789 Spanish land grant to Thomas Shields. The village soon became a resort for wealthy planters and, later, for tourists who arrived after the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad was completed in 1869. The town was incorporated as Shieldsborough in 1818 and as the city of Bay Saint Louis in 1882. During the War of 1812 (1812, War of), the bay (named in 1699 for Louis IX of France) was the scene (1814) of the naval engagement against the British known as the Battle of Pass Christian. In the late 20th century, casino gambling fueled the growth of the city, significantly increasing tourism's importance to the local economy. Bay Saint Louis, along with most of Hancock county, sustained severe storm damage in 2005 from Hurricane Katrina (Katrina, Hurricane); the neighbouring city of Waveland was virtually razed. The John C. Stennis Space Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is about 15 miles (24 km) west. Buccaneer State Park is to the south near Waveland. Pop. (1990) 8,063; (2000) 8,209.

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