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2.	HOME OF COL. AND MRS. HENRY W. BOARDMAN - 10 Bayou Place. 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. This soft green stucco home was one of the last homes built by Clayton Lehman before he retired. Mr. and Mrs. Boardman designed the floorplan themselves in a sort of whimsical design in order to accommodate a large live oak tree in the center of the lot. The design also allows a view of beautiful Bayou Bernard from most rooms. Barbara Rosetti decorated the interior using deep rich tones in the library and dining room and softer tones throughout the remainder of the home.
3.	HANDSBORO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 1304 Pass Road. 1:00
-	4:00 p.m. Organized by a New Orleans Presbyterian group on November 18, 1877. The first church was destroyed by fire in 1889. The present building was constructed in 1891. Architecture is unaltered popular rural vernacular form. The doors from the foyer to the sanctuary are designed as inverted crosses, or the “Cross of Peter”. A clock on the east wall of the sanctuary is at least 100 years old.
4.	OLD MISSISSIPPI CITY COURTHOUSE - Courthouse Road and 16th Street. 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. The Courthouse was the seat of Harrison County government for 62 years, 1841-1903. On this site Jefferson Davis delivered his last speech in 1888. calling on the young men of Mississippi to lay aside all rancor and help to reunite the country. The Courthouse was restored in 1988. On the grounds is the historic Jefferson Oak.
5.	SULLIVAN-RYAN FIGHT SITE - Hwy. 90 at Texas Ave. Here on Feb. 7, 1888. on the lawn of the Barnes Hotel. John L. Sullivan defeated Paddy Ryan in 9 rounds of a bare-knuckled fight that established Sullivan as undisputed world heavy-weight champion. (RIDE-BY)
6.	GRASSLAWN - 720 Beach Blvd. 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. This home was built in 1836 and is listed in the National Register of Homes. The gardens contain many interesting shrubs and herbs. There is a memorial rose garden to the rear of the house. The house is furnished with furniture of the period in which it was built. At 4:00 P.M. the Classiques. a ladies choral group, will entertain. Tea will be served from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M.
LONG BEACH Pilgrimage Chairman - Mrs. Frank L. Myrick Wednesday, March 28 - 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
(HISTORY) Long Beach, the Friendly City, was incorporated on August
10,	1905. A British map of 1774 showing “Bear Point”, first name for Long Beach, is on page 5 of Rosalie and Radishes, a history of Long Beach by Mary Ellen Alexander. A family of Ladniers, original settlers, built a house at Bear Point in 1774 known as the Old Plantation. Because of its two tall chimneys, it became a landmark to seamen and others along the Coast and the area was commonly called “La Chemince” and in the early 1800s, with the English, became known as The Chimneys. (The home had burned and only the chimneys remained.) Later a home was built on this land purchased from the Widow L’Adner and called “Rosalie”. About 1853 Long Beach was called Scott’s Station. James Thomas and his brother Woods bought a large tract for a nursery of fruit trees, specializing in satsumas, peaches, pears and pecans (St. Thomas Catholic Church is now on this property). They platted Original Long Beach and changed the name to Long Beach because of the long, sloping beaches of glistening white sand along the shoreline.
1.	LONG BEACH GARDEN CENTER - 201 East 5th Street. Pilgrimage 1990 marks the 60th anniversary of the Club and 37 years in the shelter of the historic clubhouse. A building program was begun in 1949 and a beautiful 50 x 150 plot of ground 1 block north of the Gulf of Mexico was donated to the club March 29, 1950, by charter member Mrs.
S.	E. Crane and her husband, for a building site. After many bake sales and other endeavors, the clubhouse was built and completed in 1953. And so this was the first Garden Club in the State of Miss, to have its own clubhouse. Camille’s 200 mph winds almost demolished the building in 1969 but it was restored and refurbished by September 1970. Both silver and golden anniversaries have been celebrated within the structure. Old and not so old souvenirs, records.
photographs and mementos will be exhibited. Flower arrangements in containers dating from the 30’s to the 90’s will be on display. Club hostesses will be attired in costumes of 1930 fashions. Tea will be served from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
2.	THE FRIENDSHIP OAK - Gulf Coast Campus of University of Southern Miss. This magnificent and historical oak tree is located in front of the Administration Building. Legend has it: “I am called Friendship Oak. Those who enter my shadow will remain friends thmugh all their lifetime, no matter where fate may take them in after years." The tree’s 5’4” trunk, 66’ limbs and 150’ lateral roots with a big wooden platform built within the branches are a photographer’s dream scene. In 1987 a 500th Birthday Bash was celebrated with souvenirs, a 4’ x 8’ birthday cake and speeches by local dignitaries, with band music, fellowship and fireworks. Photographs of the tree are permissible. The College Campus is located on Highway 90 West, approximately 34 of a mile west of the city limits, and adjacent to St. Thomas Catholic Church.
3.	THE E. O. HUNT LIVE OAK - 1170 West Railroad Street (Speed limit on the Center is 10 m.p.h.). This tree has been issued a “Big Tree Certificate" (holder, the South Mississippi Retardation Center), stating that this Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) Tree was the largest tree of its kind in the State. The Certificate (from the Miss. Forestry Commission) states the estimated age of the tree as 750 years old (in 1979). The tree is registered with the Louisiana Live Oak Society of the Garden Club Federation. Inc.. and with the Society Des Arbres.


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