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Bayou Puerto is the ancestral name for the area that most of us refer to today as Gulf Hills.

This small, isolated, primarily Roman Catholic settlement came into existence in the mid-19th century, and encompassed for the most part the S / 2 of Section 12, all of Section 13, the E / 2 of Section 14, and the NE / 4 of Section 24 all of T7S-R9W, Jackson County, Mississippi.