San Souci Beach, Coden - AL
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It's 2008 and it is time we all
had a voice in the future of our
area.


Welcome Back

I want to welcome you to bayou-coden-info.com's
Blog.  This blog is not intended to taint anyone's
reputation and/or take the place of common sense
in determining what your opinion(s) may be on any
given subject.  Sound crazy and complicated?  Well
recently I have had the immense pleasure in
receiving correspondence from legal
representatives requesting all sorts of things from
retractions to downright censure.  After a few silent
months of deciding whether or not those of you who
enjoy leaving comments on this blog deserve the
right to voice your opinion, I have come to the
conclusion that the purpose of my website was to
bring all of the surrounding communities together to
be able to have a voice where normally we are left to
be silent onlookers to accept what other people
decide for us.  Please help me let the outside world
know that we do have a voice, it is not petty and
libelous, and that there are genuine concerns and
issues that we as a community need to address.  In
a collaborative effort I challenge each of you to join
me in coming together to protect our environment
and the beautiful surroundings of Coden, Bayou La
Batre, Irvington, Mon Luis Island, Fowl River, Heron
Bay and south Mobile County.


Best regards,

The Administrator
Birding Trail Little River Road Spoil Site 2007  
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Rolston Hotel, Coden, AL
The Amethyst
Built in Biloxi 1893
Rolston Hotel, Coden, AL
Owned by Mr. Charles Graham, Coden
Passed to John E. Graham
Sold to
Oswald Forester
The Amethyst burned in the late 1920's
and was thereafter used as a barge
They Amethyst - Pleasure fishing
The Rolston Hotel, Coden, AL
Duck Hill - Indian Burial Grounds
Coden Beach, Coden, AL
Today's Majestic Oaks
Coden Beach & Clarke Road, Coden, AL
Mouth of the Bayou
Portersville Bay
Coden Rail Station
Taking a
Blog
Break -
See You
Guys on
Saturday
I am proud of all my
neighbors and
community!  Coming
together when it
matters.

And we do matter!
A San Souci Beach Sunset
San Souci ~ Coden ~ Fowl River
This is who we are.......
Fowl River Sunrise
Photographed by Katie Elizabeth Bates
A Coden Beach Sunset
Photographed by Katie Eliabeth Bates
      


       Bayou Coden
By:  Lollie Belle Moore Wylie (1858-1923)


At Bayou Coden, were the wild waves roar
Where sof winds sign and fierce winds blow,
Where the rarest of flowers,
Twine themselves in sweet bowers,
Stands a beautiful cot by the wave-beaten shore.

For years it has stood in a sweet orange glade.
Woo'd by the zephyrs that wantonly strayed
In mirthful glee
From over the sea
Coyly kissing the flowers that sleep in its shade.

"Tis a beautiful cot just built for a dream,
With its fragrant shade, and shimmering gleam
Of moon on the leaves
Of the dark orange trees,
The sweet bower-roses and murmuring stream.

And there in the happy days of old,
I wove a dream all wrought with gold,
And dreamed of a future wonderous bright,
Weaving no dark threads in with the light,
To dim the gloss of its sheeny fold.

For I was young,; and the future seemed
So bright and fair!  I idly dreamed,
For a cruel blast
In the bitter past
Swept the love from my heart that so proudly gleamed.

And oft when memory  searches o'er
The varied dreams of long ago,
Tho' shadowed deepest
I find the sweetest
That broken dream by the wave-beaten shore.

(submitted by Ann Taylor Boutwell)