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French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville charted Ship Island on 10 February 1699, [2] which he used as a base of operations in discovering of the Mississippi River. The island served as a point of immigration to French colonies in the New World. Some immigrants died upon arrival at Ship Island, and their bodies were burned in a furnace.
The Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands are a chain of barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico along the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama enclosing the Mississippi Sound.The major islands are Cat Island, Ship Island, Horn Island, Petit Bois Island, and Dauphin Island; in the early 20th century the chain also included the Isle of Caprice, which has since been submerged.
Murrell was known as a "land-pirate", using the Mississippi River as a base for his operations. He used a network of 300 [ 15 ] to 1,000, [ 16 ] and even as many as 2,500 (as some newspaper reports claimed) fellow bandits collectively known as the Mystic Clan to pull off his escapades.
The Twelvemile Island Ship Graveyard Historical and Archaeological District is a shipwreck site in the Mobile River near Mobile, Alabama, United States.The collection of five wrecks – one large, potentially three-masted ship; three barges; and an unidentified ship – are part of a ship graveyard.
The Mississippi River is a unique creature. It’s an inland sea perpetually on the move. It drains a continent. It gathers other great rivers into its fold and flows forever on. It has countless ...
Interior view of Fort Massachusetts, prepared for tours. Fort Massachusetts is a fort on West Ship Island along the Mississippi Gulf Coast of the United States.It was built following the War of 1812, with brick walls during 1859–1866, and remained in use until 1903.