Before roads and bridges, trading posts were essential on the Bay, and Pierre and Celina Harvey built their home on this site on land acquired from her father, Joe Moran. In the 1830s, with their children and a black female with child, they established a Back Bay ferry landing, a trading post, a boatyard, a lumber mill, and a tavern called the Flying Tiger. For half a century, the steam-driven ferries Shrimp, Jennie, and Old Sam carried people, livestock, and cargo across the Back Bay. Business tightened during the Civil War, and recovery was never complete. Pierre died after the war, and his son Casimer took over management. When the first Bay bridge opened to the east in 1901, a larger mercantile district developed, and small trading posts such as Harvey's soon closed. The boatyard and lumber mill survived for a time, and Casimer and later Davis Fayard built a small fleet of schooners and trawlers. After World War Two, Wheeler Fletcher operated a sawmill here. Following the 1947 hurricane, Leslie Quave and Benny Fournier built homes on the old boatyard and mill sites. Camille and Katrina removed everything.