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City of Moss Point

Photo taken & Contributred by Patricia Creel Kendrick



 
Moss Point Historical Marker
MOSS POINT
LEGEND---ROMANCE---INDUSTRY

1634
Site of Mehecti Indian Habitation

1540 1699
Spanish-French Explorers named this point at confluence of Pascagoula dn Escartawpa Rivers for Primeval Moss Laden Oaks Flourishing Here on Old Spanish Trail

1841  1920
Center of sawmill industry
Worlds Largest exporters virgina long leaf yellow pine lumber

1890
Site of Factory making glass from native sands

1912
Site of first mill manufacturing paper from southern pine pulpwood.
Home of famous Moss Point Red Azalea
City of Moss Point ws incorporated
1901

Ereced by Moss Point Garden Club
1955



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Brenda Waltman Knippers and
Julius Redmond
Assistant County Coordinators

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Assistant State Coordinators Ann Allen Geoghegan or Denise Wells
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