The Sea Coast Echo (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,455 issues from 1892 to 1922, published in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Mississippi’s westernmost coastal county, Hancock, was organized in 1812 during the state’s territorial period (1798-1817). By the mid-19th-century, the county seat of Shieldsboro, later renamed Bay St. Louis, was a popular destination for wealthy New Orleanians fleeing summertime heat and yellow fever epidemics; after 1870, railroads brought affluent Northerners to Bay St. Louis and other Gulf Coast resorts. Commercial canning began in the 1880s with the canning of oysters and shrimp, and, in the off season, locally grown fruits and vegetables. When the lumbering boom came in the 1890s, the Pearl River, the western boundary of the county, served as one means of transporting longleaf yellow pine timber from the southern portion of the state to coastal sawmills and, from there, to national and international markets.
While not the earliest Democratic newspaper in Bay St. Louis, the Sea Coast Echo (1892-current) has outlived its main competitor, the Gulf Coast Progress (1884-1921). The first issue of the weekly Echo came out on January 9, 1892, with the motto “Fearless in all Things.” Its goal was to be an “all home print” newspaper and promised “a first class newsy local paper” to the people of Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, and the coast. The issue announced 18-year-old Charles G. Moreau, “a young man of great newspaper ability,” as the editor. Except for a six-year stretch from 1912 to 1917, when the Echo was expanded to eight pages, Moreau produced a four-page newspaper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress