The town known as "The Kiln," has received nationwide notoriety due
to one of its native sons, former Green Bay Packers' quarterback
Brett Favre. The community, located 10 miles north of Bay St. Louis
and Waveland, on the Gulf coast, was named for the kilns built by
the early French settlers to produce tar and charcoal. In later
years, with the growth of the timber industry, the town of Kiln was
touted as having the largest sawmill and drying kiln in the South.
During that period of the early 1900s, there was a hospital, a
large hotel, and hundreds of mill-houses, none of which exist
today. Later, the Kiln, as the town was commonly called, enjoyed a
second boom when it became known as the Moonshine Capital of the
World during the bootlegging days of Prohibition. It was said that
an average of $4,000 of sugar a week was sold by a small local
merchant. Kiln liquor had a reputation for high alcoholic proof and
went under such names as Jourdan River Dew, White Lightning,
Shinny, etc. The area around the Kiln is the fastest growing region
of the county, which is, itself, one of the fastest growing
counties in Mississippi. Ellis tracks the Kiln story from the early
American Indians; the colonial periods of the French, English,
Spanish; and the early migrations of Americans - to the present
day. The book is liberally sprinkled with old and new photographs
and drawings as well as names that are as familiar today as they
were when the town's history began - Favre, Cuevas, Ladner,
Nicaise, and Haas. The book contains brief histories of Kiln's
neighboring piney wood communities - Fenton, Jourdan River Shores,
McLeod Water Park, Holly Bluff, Diamondhead, and the NASA Stennis
Space Center. A section is included on the town's athletic
celebrities, including Brett Favre, in addition to archival and
current maps, and a driving tour of the Kiln.
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