This text was obtained via automated optical character recognition.
It has not been edited and may therefore contain several errors.

---

ca
Sports
Classified
Gulf
Coast
-Edition
Monday, May 5, 1975 fr/
Steamboats. . .
Steamboats moved between the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans in the early 1800s. These early steamboats used wood for fuel and fresh water for the boilers was pumped from the rivers.
On the Gulf Coast runs, however, the boats carried fresh water tanks which had to be refilled every few hours.
Year 1812 memorable one for Mississippi Coast area
C. E. SCHMIDT
The year 1812 is memorable in the history of the Mississippi Coast. It was then that the area was divided into two large counties of the Mississippi territoryJackson to east and Hancock to the west, separated roughly by the Biloxi River. The seed of government were planted and the Coast was ready for development.
In this same year the first paddle-wheel steamboat arrived at New Orleans and started an amazing era of prosperity and expansion in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.