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and used as a rental house on the Aunt Jenny's property. Eventually, it was restored and moved to Marshall Park. So who was Marshall? No one is around to answer the question, we se seek out nearby art gallery owner Larry Cosper. "Our history researcher,f Ray Bellande, wrote this," Cosper explains as he pulls a paper out of his files. "This should answer your questions." He was right. The basic facts are this:	Col.	Chgarles Marshall, born in 1848,
started his railroad career as an operator, agent and dispatcher in Tennessee. In 1866 he became a Louisville & Nashville superintendent in New Orleans, and seven years later moved to Bay St. Louis and commuted to his big-city job. Marshall used his position of power to create parks near the L&N depots on the Mississippi Coast. These spots of beauty, he believed, were important because trains were the main mode of transportation and the depots made first impressions on visitors he died in 1928 and is buried in the Bay's Cedar Rest Cemetery. Marshall's long-ago good deeds weere forgotten befors SOSA restored the park in 1989, as part of an on-going improvement project by business and community membership. Now the Marshall name greets every downtown visitor whoi passes the attractive wooden sign in front of the park. (Sun Herald, 1994, month and day not known. Copy in VF Marshall)
THE COLONEL CHARLES MARSHALL LET
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