Peculiar-looking floating circus docked on town’s riverfront: 1852
Cutline: Artwork From Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Feb. 19, 1853. Reprinted in Circus Scrap Book, No. 13 (Jan), 1932, pp....
Goodnight lost his life to the currents of Bay Charles, when Bay Island was still and island
The rock dam that stops the flow of Charles Bay from direct entry into the Mississippi River has protected the prime farmland of the bay...
Family perishes when flood water crashes debris into wooden bridge
This illustration, based upon a 1885 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, shows the direction the Crosby family was traveling by horse and wagon...