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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ARD_harveys-hill_DIberville-MS.html
Before roads and bridges, trading-posts were essential on the Bay Pierre and Celina Harvey built their home on this site, acquired from her father Joe Moran. In the 1830s, along with their children and a black female with child, they completed the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AR2_antioch-missionary-baptist-church_Long-Beach-MS.html
Second oldest church in Long Beach. Organized April 24, 1880 as Bethel Baptist Church affiliated with the Hobolochitta Association by Baptist Missionary J.P. Johnston and several members of the "Sunshine Church" (established by R. W. Conn in the 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AR1_mt-pilgrim-missionary-baptist-church_Long-Beach-MS.html
Rev. Dan Travis organizing pastor. First church
erected in 1895 (Rev. W. H. Walker, pastor) served
as both church and school for this community.
After storm damage a second church was erected
in 1927, School continued in church until 1928
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQZ_united-methodist-church_Long-Beach-MS.html
Outgrowth of interdenominational Sunday School
Class begun by Mrs. Fannie Donavan. Organized
as Scott's Station Methodist Church, Rev. Joseph
Nicholson first pastor. Land for first church given
by Henry Ware in 1879. Only Protestant church…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQX_war-memorial-park_Long-Beach-MS.html
Fifteen Long Beach mothers began meeting weekly
in 1942 to pray for their sons and daughters
serving in the Armed Forces. They, organized
into the Long Beach War Memorial Association
in 1945 and began raising money for a memorial.
They b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQW_gulf-park-college_Long-Beach-MS.html
Founded 1921 by Colonel J. C. Hardy Gulf Park
College provided unique educational experiences
for young women at the secondary and junior
college level. The college enjoyed fifty years of
operation as an educational institution filled with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQT_hurricane-katrina-storm-recovery_Long-Beach-MS.html
Hurricane Katrina
Considered one of the three most intense hurricanes to hit the United States. On Sunday, August 29, 2005, the Category 3 storm nearly devastated the City of Long Beach. Storm surge exceeded 28 feet. Six lives lost and 60 busin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQR_long-beach-presbyterian-church_Long-Beach-MS.html
Organized by Rev. Hervey McDowell, Evangelist
for Meridian Presbytery, as a Home Mission
church with 17 charter members. Organizational
meeting in Methodist Church with services held
there until building completed 1912 on site given
by M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQI_mchenry_McHenry-MS.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AQH_city-of-wiggins_Wiggins-MS.html
Named for pioneer settler Wiggins Hatten,
Wiggins was proclaimed an incorporated
municipality by Mississippi governor J. K.
Vardaman on March 26, 1904. From 1902 to
1929 the main industry in Wiggins was a
sawmill erected by the Finkbine …