In 1889 George Austin McHenry led fifty-four families from Michigan to a site on the proposed route of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad twenty-five miles north of Gulfport. This "Michigan settlement," later known as McHenry, flourished as a fores…
Grave 4 mi. S.W. Pioneer of South Mississippi. Captain in war of 1812, 1813-15. Lt. Col. militia & member territorial legislature, 1815, 1817. State legislator, 1838, 1839.