Brown's Vineyard

Frederick Braun, later spelled Brown, and his wife, Anna, natives of Germany, ran a vineyard of ninety acres here, nearly all in scuppernong grapes. It doubled as a summer resort. Guests arrived in horse-drawn tally-hos from the hotels of Bay St. Louis, five miles away, to be served wine, bread and butter in the house and to dance to piano music in a pavilion. Mail orders came from Chicago and New York. When Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, the Browns emptied the cellar and buried the stock, which federal agents are said to have dug up and destroyed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 13 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Crosby Arboretum — 21 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 26 mi
  A barrier island twelve miles off the Mississippi coast with a brick fort burned half-built in 1861, a Union prison camp, and the garrison post of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard.

More markers nearby

• Pearl Rivers — 2.3 mi
• Gulfside Assembly — 2.5 mi
• Sea Song Plantation — 2.6 mi
• 100 Men D.B.A. Hall — 3.5 mi