The residence and park about it now occupied by the George Brown family is most unique in character and development. Not only is the Brown house one of the older in the area, its owners have attempted to preserve one of the oldest of the Creole type houses from the area moving it to this site.

     They have also located here, in exact duplication, the tabby walls of a probably French or Spanish structure located at another point along the historic Bon Secour River.

     Bon Secour was named for the famous Bon Secour Church in Montreal. The Blessed Lady of Bon Secour is the Mother Protector of fishermen and seafarers. Thus, the French carried this name and Virginal protection to our beautiful area.

     In further keeping with the romance of French settlements and old south, the Browns had this gazebo constructed and modeled after those in Mississippi. Following one of Mother Nature's greatest tantrums and tempest fits destroying to the best of our knowledge all gazebos along the colorful French Coast of the Biloxi area, the beautiful structure has thus far been preserved as an example of this unique architecture.

     Written 1983 for the Gulf Telephone Company 100th Anniversary publication of �Baldwin Vignettes�.