“In 1788, Nicholas and Marianne Ladner became the first Europeans to settle in this area. Their log house, known as ‘The Chimneys,’ was used as a navigation point for boats traveling from Mobile to New Orleans. After Nicholas's death, the Spanish granted the land to his widow. Much of modern Long Beach includes the Widow Ladner Claim.”
Truck farming is the cultivation of one or a few fruit or vegetable crops on a relatively large scale for transport to distant markets where the crop cannot be grown due to climate.
The W.J. Quarles House - "Greenvale" 1894 Known as the "Catalyst for the development of Long Beach," W.J. Quarles moved his family to Long Beach from Tennessee in 1884. Mr. Quarles was responsible for many firsts for Long Beach including organizing the first school in Long Beach in the front part of his house; building the first dry goods store; serving as postmaster when the first post office was set up in his store; and beginning the truck farming industry in Long Beach.
Boggsdale is a legendary location in Mississippi Coast history. In 1875, Georgian artist and writer Robert Boggs and his wife, Eliza Jane, bought seven acres of beachfront land with bayou and woods that included an area that would become Long Beach. Family legend claims Native Americans told them not to build so close to the Sound, but they did.
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