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16. Beauvoir, also known as the Jefferson Davis Home, is an expansive 51-acre estate on Biloxi Beach, also housing a museum, nature trail, cemetery, monument, and gift shop.
17. Built in the 1890s as a Biloxi residence, the home of Walter & Cora White transitioned into the White House Hotel, a popular destination for visitors to “America’s Riviera” in the 1920s.
18. OnceknownasLogtown, Hancock County held America’s largest lumber company during the 19th century until resources began to decline in the 1930’s.
19. Locatedatthemouthofthe Pearl River, Logtown was once the site of several sawmills.
20. Gulfport is the second-largest city in Mississippi with a population of nearly 70,000 residents.
21. Gulfport’sTrinityYachtsbuilds custom superyachts and is known as being among the world’s elite builders.
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Now a world-class maritime terminal and major economic driver, the Port of Gulfport became a working seaport in 1902.
Built in 1922 by the “One Hundred Members Debating Benevolent Association,” the 100 Men Hall DBA has acted
as a center of social life and entertainment for the African- American community in Coastal Mississippi. The Hall has played hosttomajorBluesperformers including Big Joe Turner, Etta James, and Guitar Slim.
The giant Native American Crooked Feather Sculpture in OceanSpringswassculpted in 1999, a replica of a 1975 sculpture by Peter Wolf Toth, a tribute to North American Natives.
French explorer Pierre
Le Moyne D’Iberville first colonized Coastal Mississippi in 1699,somewherearoundOcean Springs.
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26. After its colonization in 1699, Fort Maurepas, now established in Ocean Springs, was the capital of French Louisiana.
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