This is not entirely legendary for at least one serious book has been written on this subject. It is believed that the tribe of blue-eyed Mandan Indians may have been descendants of this group. His efforts at colonizing failed but fraternizing with the Indians was apparently successful. The oldest of these is the tradition that Prince Madoc of Wales landed at Fort Morgan peninsula in 1170 and visited the Bon Secour River also. There are old tales that great men of past eras knew the Bon Secour area well. However, it is safe to say that it is definitely older than colonial times. It is now undergoing serious archeological study. This ruin occupies a point of high land where deep water runs close to shore. There is the outline of some ancient building where the masonry is composed of tabby, which means a mortar of burnt oyster shells built up with regular oyster shells. Hot suns and heavy rains combined with the terrific winds of hurricanes cause masonry to crumble and wood to rot. Most remains of older buildings have disappeared since in this sub-tropical climate no ruins of any sort last long. There are houses in Bon Secour today well over one hundred years old which should have the year of their building proudly painted over their front doorways as is done in Virginia and Massachusetts.
Older grants from earlier times can be traced although definite records are not always found. Land titles can be traced in existing record books as far back as 1793 when John Ward purchased a house and tract of land there.
The pleasant village of Bon Secour has been a settled area with permanent residents for a long, long time. Thus, the first landfall of Bon Secour in the Southern Country also became a church. This was the point from which it was visible from Oyster Bay and Shell Banks as well as Bon Secour, and the Parish was summoned upon the arrival of the Anglican priest by hoisting a red flag with a white cross in the center. Peters, at the mouth of Bon Secour River. Voyageurs saw it last as they left land, and it greeted them first upon, their return.īy a most unusual coincidence the Baltic Germans, who were the second group of settlers at Bon Secour, in Baldwin County, Alabama, built their church, St. He named the town for the church, which stands on a hill near the Canadian city and is called Notre Dame de Bon Secours. It is traditionally held that Bon Secour received its name which, roughly translated, means "Safe Harbor" from Jacques Cook who came from Montreal.
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