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Location of Harrison County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harrison County, Mississippi.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
By the mid-1950s, infrastructure development in the form of industries, highways, airports and housing construction, associated with the expansion of Gulfport, began to encroach on the Turkey Creek Community. Although the Turkey Creek Community predated the founding of the City of Gulfport, it was annexed by that City in 1994. [2]
During the early years after port development, some of the items imported through Gulfport included phosphates, iron pyrite, creosote oil, naval stores and mahogany. From 1910 through 1913, the Port of Gulfport shipped and exported more timber than any other port in the world. [6] The state of Mississippi derived substantial benefits from the G ...
The OpenHistoricalMap community has organized projects to map certain historical periods and themes in detail. Major contributions have included: Historical boundaries of U.S. states, imported from the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a project of the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library [18]
Dog Key Island (also known as the Isle of Caprice) is a former barrier island on the Gulf Coast of the United States, between Ship Island and Horn Island among the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands, and off Biloxi, Mississippi.
MS 605 first appeared in maps in 2004, [2] [3] and has not changed significantly since. Prior to its designation in 2004, the portion of MS 605 between I-10 and US 90 was known as Mississippi Highway 975 (MS 975), with the remaining portion north of I-10 known as Mississippi Highway 981 (MS 981).
1864 map of the approaches to Grand Gulf. At 7:00 a.m. on April 29, seven Union Navy ironclads led by Porter moved down the river from Hard Times Landing towards the positions at Grand Gulf. Roughly 30,000 Union infantry were in the Hard Times Landing area, of whom about 10,000 were on transports.
In 1935, Grace Jones Stewart, heir of Joseph T. Jones, donated to the city of Gulfport a tract of land along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico to be used solely for recreational purposes. [8] Despite efforts to develop the land for other objectives, it endures as the Joseph T. Jones Memorial Park.