February 22,1928. Daily Herald. On February 22, 1928, three weeks after the first cars went over the Walson-Williams Toll Bridge, the first car passed over the Bay of St. Louis free bridge connecting Bay St. Louis with Henderson Point. [This $800,000 two-lane two-mile-long structure would have been finished weeks ettrlier except the Rochester (Indiana) Bridge Company failed to deliver the draw span on time. This wooden bridge stood on creosote timbers with a roadbed of planks overlayed with asphalt. That made it highly flammable. Governor Theodore G. Bilbo and the entire Mississippi Stale Legislature attended the dedication on March 2, 1928. With the opening of this bridge, the only ferry still operating on the route between Mobile and New Orleans was the one at Pascagoula.]
May 11, 1928. Daily Herald. The Harrison County 25-mile-long step seawall and adjoining boulevard was dedicated on May 10, 1928. At that time this seawall was the longest concrete seawall in the world.
Automobiles cross the Bay ol St. Louis tree bridge between Henderson Point and Bay St. Louis shortly after the bridge opened in February 1928.
The Harrison County step seawall looking west circa 1942 along one of the first sections of U.S. Highway 90 to be four-laned. The pumping of the sand beach to protect the seawall was not accomplished until late 1951, so the waters of the Mississippi Sound lap at the foot of the seawall in this photograph. Photos courtesy of the Jon Richard Lewis Postcard Collection.
New Two Mile Traffic Bridge Connecting Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, Miss.
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