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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AYT_long-beach-world-war-ii-monument-a-war-memorial_Long-Beach-MS.html
Dedicated to the
memory of our sons
who made the
supreme sacrifice in
World War II
★
Nathan Y. Conn
Edwin B. Davis
Harold W. Ervin
Thomas J. Gotliboski
David F. Hayes
O'Nick Nazaretain
O. Bernard Reeves
Harry F. Rishel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AVZ_administration-building_Long-Beach-MS.html
Designed in the Mission Revival style by New Orleans
Architect, Rathbone Emile DeBuys and built by Chevally &
Fursden Contractors of Gulfport, the Administration
Building was one of the first buildings constructed for the
Gulf Park College…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AVX_friendship-oak_Long-Beach-MS.html
I was a sapling when Columbus sailed into the
Caribbean and was fully grown by Napoleon's
reign. I am now over five centuries old. I have
sheltered Indians, pirates and college students.
I am called Friendship Oak. Those who enter my
sha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASU_the-land-and-legend-of-the-cross_DIberville-MS.html
In February 1699, Pierre Le Moyne (d'Iberville) sent soldiers to
explore the Bay of Biloxi. They found no evidence of Indian residence
on either side, including what is now D'Iberville. Later, in the 18th
century, French-Indian Elizabeth Bou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AST_the-crossing_DIberville-MS.html
Long before the Europeans appeared on the Biloxi Back Bay
American Indians had trails that led to the water's edge, where
their canoes were beached for crossings. At the time Biloxi Bay
depths were incidental. That changed early in the Colon…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASD_the-five-trails_DIberville-MS.html
By 1812, Spain ceded dominion of our Coast to the U.S., adding to
the Mississippi Territory. At the time most of north-shore Back Bay
Biloxi was settled by three related (Swiss-French) Ladnier families
and (Indian-French) ) Elizabeth Boudrea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASC_the-quave-commercial-strip_DIberville-MS.html
In 1834 Dominique Ladnier sold a strip of land adjacent to the
Sanchez strip to Pierre Quave. The most practical location for a
town on the Bay was at this strip, because of the Bay channel
and its Proximity to the most suitable ferry landin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASB_d-iberville-high-school-original-site_DIberville-MS.html
In the late 19th Century students were tutored either privately or in academies. In 1885 the village of Lazarus erected the two-room Lazarus School known as Back Bay School, south of Laz Seymour's store and post office. In 1891, 52 students were u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ASA_fort-maurepas-and-old-biloxi_DIberville-MS.html
This stone marks the site of
Fort Maurepas and Old Biloxi,
the first French settlement in the
lower south, established in the
name of Louis XIV King of France,
by Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville
April 8, 1699.
Erected by the Gulf Coast Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARK_the-old-brickyard_DIberville-MS.html
In 1721 the French colonial headquarters made its fourth move on
the Coast: Old Biloxi to New Biloxi with the intentions of building
a permanent fort of bricks. Abundant ideal brick clay, was discovered
here, the best of four resource sites. Af…