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STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
WILLIAM F WINTER. PRESIDENT JOHN K BETTERSWORTH ARCH DALRYMPLE III HERMAN B DECELL FRANK E EVERETT JR MRS. MITCHELL ROBINSON ESTUS SMITH EVERETTE TRULY SHERWOOD W WISE
ELBERT R HILLIARD DIRECTOR
The Honorable Larry J. Bennett Mayor of Bay St. Louis P. 0. Box 310
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 39520 Dear Mayor Bennett:
We are pleased to inform you that we have been notified by Mr. Chris Therral Delaporte, director of the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, that the Bay St. Louis Multiple Resource Area, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has been officially entered in the National Register of Historic Places, thus making it one of 374 Mississippi entries that have been recorded in the National Register.
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and the other members of your community for the role that you have played in promoting historic preservation in Mississippi.
If the Department of Archives and History can ever be of service to you, please do not hesitate to call on us.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Bailey Director
Division of Historic Preservation
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
P. O BOX 571 JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 39205
January 6, 1981
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