Ship Island
N 30° 21.904 W 089° 05.379
16R E 299177 N 3361089
Historical Marker located in Gulfport, MS.
Waymark Code: WMT0JH
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2016
Views: 4
12 miles south of the mainland lies emerald waters and sugar white sand. Site of economic and military conquest by the Spanish in the 1500s, the French in 1699, the British in the 1700s and the Union Army in 1861. Site of Civil War Fort Massachusetts and quarantine station (1881-1916). British headquarters for the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. A brick lighthouse was built in 1853 and destroyed in 1886, survived Hurricane Camille in 1969, burned by a campfire in 1972, and reconstructed in 1999. Southern terminus for the Gulfport shipping channel. Became part of the Gulf Island National Seashore in 1971.
Date Installed:: ?
Organization that placed the object:: Hancok Bank and Friends of the Gulf Island National Sea Shore
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