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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFX_deer-island-coastal-preserve-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Through most of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th, Deer Island was owned and occupied by the Baker Family, descendents of Josephus Aiken, who acquired ownership by a patent signed by President James K. Polk. In 1951, Robert D. Sander…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFS_tullis-toledano-house-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
One of the most substantial of the vacation houses on the Gulf Coast, the Tullis Toledano House was built in 1856 for New Orleans native Christoval Sebastian Toledano (1789-1869) and his wife, Matilda Pradat Toledano. The estate, composed of a Cre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFR_vance-gillis-house-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Built in the 1830s, the French Creole house once located here incorporated Federal and Greek Revival decorative influences tn its design. The gallery completely encircled the house, and its
slender, colonnettes supported a broad hipped roof with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFQ_slavic-benevolent-association-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Originally on this site was the Slavic Benevolent Association Lodge, a 13,000 sq. ft. structure with a meeting hall accommodating 600 people. Known as the Slavonian Lodge, the building served as a social center for the large number of ethnic Slavs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFP_coast-guard-station-barracks-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Built here in 1934 as part of a U.S. Coast Guard base, the barracks was an E-shaped, Spanish Colonial Revival style building made of reinforced concrete. Arcaded porches lined the building's
wings and central pavilion, which had an octagonal cupo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFM_father-ryan-house-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Known as the Father Ryan House, the Greek Revival house once located here was built ca. 1840 by Judge W.C. Wade of Natchez. Among the area's first vacation villas, it was sold to New Orleans architect T.W. Carter in 1885, and was altered. It may b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFL_white-house-hotel-historical_Biloxi-MS.html
Established as the White House Inn in
1895, this hotel was first operated as a
boarding house by Cora White. By 1910 the
White House had grown in popularity and
become a tourist destination. The campus
encompassed seven residential buildings
…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFC_1863-east-pascagoula-raid-historical_Gulfport-MS.html
The Louisiana Native Guards, composed largely of former slaves and free men of color from Louisiana, were organized by Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler in 1862. On April 9, 1863, 180 men from companies B and G of the 2nd Regiment, landed at Pascago…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFB_old-gulfport-high-school-historical_Gulfport-MS.html
The Gulfport High School, built in 1923 by architect N. W. Overstreet, replaced two earlier schools built in 1899 and 1905, both of which burned. Opened in 1924 at a new location on 15th Street, the school was converted to a junior high in 1977 du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFA_dr-felix-henry-dunn-historical_Gulfport-MS.html
An African American physician, lived and practiced medicine here fron 1953 until 2002. His work to register African American voters provoked repeated death threats and fire bombing of his clinic. He was president of the Gulfport Branch NAACP and m…