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The G&SIRR Company controlled a 6-mile (9.7-km) long channel in the Gulf of Mexico that connected the mainland to Ship Island. Dredging of a shipping channel was completed by the S.S. Bullis Company in 1902; it connected Ship Island and the main railroad terminal at Gulfport. [3] The G&SIRR greatly facilitated the development of the shipping port.
Under a contract with a representative of the United States Government, dated February 20, 1901, and made pursuant to an act of Congress of March, 1889, the carrier dredged a ship channel some 7 miles long from Ship Island to the harbor at Gulfport and an anchorage basin adjacent to the docks at that point, completing the work in 1902.
Pearl and Leaf Rivers Railroad IC: 1897 1904 Mississippi Central Railroad: Richmond and Danville Railroad: C&G, SOU: 1889 1894 Southern Railway: Ripley Railroad: GM&O: 1871 1872 Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad: Rosedale and Mississippi Central Railroad: IC: 1890 1898 Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad: St. Louis – San Francisco ...
Gulfport station is a closed Amtrak intercity train station in Gulfport, Mississippi, United States. Gulfport is a former union station that served the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (which was succeeded by the Illinois Central Railroad ).
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Two villages predated the founding of Gulfport: Mississippi City, located along the gulf, and Handsboro, founded in the 1800s along the northern bayous. [5] [6] Mississippi City was born out of the Mississippi City Company that was formed in 1837 to build a town to serve as the terminus for the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.
In 1870, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was constructed through the southernmost section of Harrison County, Mississippi, connecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. [1] A northern transportation route into south Mississippi was provided by the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad at the turn of the 20th century. [2]