Time Line

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The Biloxis (derived from Sioux), Pascagoulas and other tribes are on the Mississippi Coast.</div> <div> <B>1400 to 1700</B> - The French, Spanish and Portuguese explore the Gulf region and European diseases brought by them spread and kill many natives in the Gulf region.</div> <div> <B>1699</B> - The men of French explorer Iberville investigate coastline from Ship Island to Pearl River. There are no known records of the French finding native settlements in present-day Long Beach at that time.</div> <div> <B>1719</B> - Christian de L'Adner (later, Ladner/Ladnier) lands in the New World from Lucerne, France, and settles at the Pascagoula French colony.</div> <div> <B>1781</B> - Nicholas Ladner, Christian's son, petitions Spanish government for legal title to Cat Island, across from Long Beach, which he has actively occupied with his family of 11 children for 35 years.</div> <div> <B>1788</B> - Nicholas Ladner petitions Spanish government for land on the mainland across from Cat Island. He, his wife Marianne and some of the children move there and build a house with large chimneys at Bear Point bayou.</div> <div> <B>1810 </B>- Spanish government conveys much of what would become Long Beach to Marianne as the Widow Ladner Claim. She gives much of it to son Claude. Earlier, Nicholas gave son-in-law Juan Cuevas much of Cat Island.</div> <div> <B>Early 1800s</B> - The site is known as “The Chimneys” because of the old homestead.  Long after burning, “The Chimneys” still stood and were used as navigational aides.</div> <div> <B>January 1811 </B>- After President Madison creates the Territory of New Orleans, American flags are raised on the Mississippi Coast for the first time.</div> <div> <B>1812</B> - South Mississippi is divided into two counties, Jackson and Hancock.  “The Chimneys” is in Hancock County (-now, in Harrison County).</div> <div> <B>Around 1850</B> - John J. McCaughan purchases part of Widow Ladner Claim and builds a home called Rosalie. He advertises in New Orleans newspapers to bring people to his settlement, and builds a 1,000-foot pier so steamers can land.</div> <div> <B>1860</B> - Census shows six families, total of 23, living at Rosalie.</div> <div> <B>1861-1865</B> - Few men of military age live in Rosalie when the Civil War breaks out. No records exists of federal troops landing in Long Beach. Settlers boiled salt for trade.</div> <div> <B>1870</B> - Railroad from New Orleans to Mobile opens. Rosalie resident George Scott builds railroad station and community is renamed Scott's Station.</div> <div> <B>1870s-1890s</B> - Commerce, trade, the lumber industry and farming burgeon.</div> <div> <B>1874</B> - First United Methodist Church is organized.</div> <div> <B>1880</B> - L&N starts daily commuter service between Ocean Springs and New Orleans, with stops at Scott's Station. More visitors come because it shortens the same trip by water.</div> <div> <B>1880</B> - Antioch Baptist Church organizes as Bethel Baptist Church.</div> <div> <B>1882</B> - McCaughan heirs sell some land to Thomas brothers, who open fruit tree nursery.  The old community gets a new name, “Long Beach.”</div> <div> <B>1883</B> - W.J. Quarles comes from Tennessee, like the Thomas brothers, and soon opens a store, the first post office and taught the first school classes in his home.</div> <div> <B>1884</B> - The Thomases and Quarles raise and ship several dozen boxes of green beans out by train, launching Long Beach truck farming, including radishes and strawberries.</div> <div> <B>1880s-turn of century </B>- As pine forests are cleared, farmers pull up tree stumps and learn that Long Beach soil is good for certain crops.</div> <div> <B>1894</B> - Mrs. Uriel Wright and others organize first library. The Masonic Lodge #422 opens as Long Beach's first organization.</div> <div> <B>1895</B> - Ed Klein moved from New Orleans, opens bakery and later becomes first city marshal.</div> <div> <B>Early 1890s</B> - First Episcopal Church organizes as “All Saints.”</div> <div> A<B>ugust 1905 </B>- On Aug. 10, Long Beach is incorporated after the Dubuisson family and their 13 children are convinced to move from Pineville so that it has the required 900 citizens.</div> <div> <B>September 1905</B> - St. Thomas Catholic Church is dedicated. The first recorded Long Beach Mass was in the 1890s.</div> <div> <B>1908</B> - Long Beach has 70 individual growers and more than 300 acres planted in truck produce, from lettuce to carrots. Long Beach is the self-proclaimed "Radish Capital of the World" and is increasing in flower production, including gladiolas.</div> <div> 1<B>909</B> - Long Beach Presbyterian Church is organized, as is First Baptist Church. Seven other Christian churches would open during the century.</div> <div> <B>1913</B> - Long Beach population is 1,200. A streetcar line runs in front of the city along the beach.</div> <div> <B>1921</B> - Gulf Park College for Women opens on the Rosalie site.</div> <div> <B>1923</B> - On New Year's Eve "The Big Fire" burns much of the east side of Jeff Davis Avenue.</div> <div> <B>1925</B> - Old Spanish Trail, first national highway that stretches from St. Augustine to San Diego, is completed and includes Long Beach.</div> <div> <B>1926</B> - Bond issue is approved for $75,000 to construct "water works and fire protection system."</div> <div> <B>1928</B> - The coast-long seawall is completed after years of building to protect against erosion. It and the road in front of it change the character of the beach, once sand dunes, Indian middens, sandy stretches and small waterways meander into the sound.</div> <div> <B>1929</B> - Black Friday brings screeching halt to land and farm boom. Some truck farmers lose land during Great Depression.</div> <div> <B>1930</B> - Long Beach Garden Club forms with motto "Whoever makes a garden works hand in hand with God."</div> <div> <B>1942</B> - War Memorial Association is formed by 15 mothers to pray for their sons and daughters serving in World War II.  They erect honor roll in the center of the Rose Garden on Jeff Davis Avenue (and later moved to park).</div> <div> <B>1945</B> - Long Beach Chamber of Commerce is organized.</div> <div> <B>1947</B> - First city mail delivery begins May 1.  Five from Long Beach die in one of the worst hurricanes in modern history.</div> <div> <B>1951</B> - Long Beach again deserves its name when Corps of Engineers pumps sand to make a beach eroded by time and the effects of a seawall.  Ina McCartney wins with her suggested name for the city, "The Friendly City."</div> <div> <B>1952</B> - Long Beach School System officially forms with 350 students in one school complex.</div> <div> <B>1956</B> - New Long Beach High School and Jeff Davis Elementary School open.</div> <div> <B>1958</B> - New City Hall is dedicated on Jeff Davis Avenue.</div> <div> <B>1959</B> - Bill and Dolores Fennell publish first issue of The Long Beach News, which is the voice of the city for 25 years.</div> <div> <B>1961</B> - Opening of a NASA facility in nearby Hancock Country brings many new "bedroom" residents.</div> <div> <B>1962</B> - St. Peter's Episcopal Church organizes.</div> <div> <B>1964</B> - Long Beach Carnival Association forms.</div> <div> <B>1966</B> - New public library building opens.</div> <div> <B>1969</B> - Hurricane Camille devastates Long Beach and rest of the Coast. Churches, shopping centers, homes are destroyed and at least 22 in this city die.</div> <div> <B>1971 </B>- The Small Craft Harbor is built after destruction of waterfront from Camille.</div> <div> <B>1972</B> - University of Southern Mississippi opens branch campus on old Gulf Park campus.</div> <div> <B>1978</B> - South Mississippi Regional Center opens for people with mental disabilities.</div> <div> <B>1979</B> - The Regina Company is the first to open in the Long Beach Industrial Park. It eventually closes but the 467-acre park remains active.</div> <div> <B>1980</B> - The city is 4.5 square miles and has a population of 8,000, including 3,000 students in five schools.</div> <div> <B>1981</B> - Annexation to the north and west increases population to 10,000. Long Beach Yacht Club re-forms from an earlier time.</div> <div> <B>1982</B> - The Ocean Wave Quilters, an outgrowth of an earlier adult education class, joins the Gulf States Quilters.</div> <div> <B>1987</B> - Long Beach is named Mississippi's second Tree City USA, a bow to the beautiful oaks and magnolias.</div> <div> <B>1990</B> - The Long Beach Progress becomes the city's newspaper for 11 years.</div> <div> <B>1991</B> - A senior citizen activity center opens on Jeff Davis Avenue.</div> <div> <B>1992</B> - Harrison County approves dockside gambling, left to the discretion of each city. Long Beach and neighboring Pass Christian citizens vote no for their cities.</div> <div> <B>1997</B>- Long Beach Historical Society forms to preserve the city's sense of place.</div> <div> <B>1999</B> - City joins rest of the Coast to celebrate 1699 Tricenntennial.</div> <div> <B>2000 The new millennium</B> - The city marches into the new century with Long Beach Vision 2020, a 20-year plan for economic, development and cultural growth. The population is 17,000-plus on 10 square miles.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="photos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photos"><U><B>Next</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>