Five thinly-populated rural Mississippi communities ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ), plus the northern portion of a sixth ( Pearlington ), along with 700 families in residence, had to be completely relocated off the facility.

Along with a younger brother, Wesley Coke Asbury Gause, Judge Wingate, and several others, they left Shallotte, North Carolina, on February 18, and arrived at Pearlington, Mississippi, on April 14, 1836.

Pearlington is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Hancock County, Mississippi, on U. S. Route 90, along the Pearl River, at the Louisiana state line.

In 1961, Pearlington was one of six communities in Hancock County, Mississippi acquired either wholly ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ) or in part ( a section of northern Pearlington ), along with a combined population of 700 families who were completely relocated to provide a acoustical buffer zone for what was envisioned to be NASA's main rocket testing facility, the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ).

Hurricane Katrina damaged over 40 Mississippi libraries, gutting the Pearlington Public Library as a total loss, requiring a complete rebuild.

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina crossed the sound before making its third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi.

At 10: 00 AM CDT ( 1500 UTC ), Hurricane Katrina made its third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi and Slidell, Louisiana, with sustained winds of 120 mph ( 193 km / h ) after crossing Breton Sound.

( Coalition of Disaster Relief Agencies in Pearlington ) noted that all but 2 homes, every building, and every vehicle in the town of 1600 was destroyed, and a storm surge travelled inland to drown what little was left under 12 – 20 feet of toxic stew from the saltwater storm tide off the Gulf of Mexico.

Pearlington is located at ( 30. 249994 ,-89. 604939 ).

Pearlington is served by the Hancock County School District.

Residents say that Pearlington is old and generally overlooked.

Producer visits Pearlington to report on activities after Katrina, where it is unclear who is in charge

Towns like Pearlington, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Diamondhead, and Kiln suffered catastrophic damage.

On August 29, 2005 at 10 am CDT ( 1500 UTC ), Hurricane Katrina made a third landfall on Pearlington.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just south of Pearlington.

Remnants of the portion of Pearlington and the other five communities still exist inside the testing buffer zone at SSC, These include such features as now-overgrown city streets and a one-room school house.

The eye of the hurricane made direct contact with Pearlington, halfway between Biloxi, and New Orleans.

According to Vicki Smith, Associated Press writer, Pearlington was seemingly forgotten during Katrina recovery.

* Pearlington, Mississippi-Named after the river.

The selected area was thinly populated and met all other requirements ; however before construction began, five small communities ( Gainesville, Logtown, Napoleon, Santa Rosa, and Westonia ), plus the northern portion of a sixth ( Pearlington ), and a combined population of 700 families had to be completely relocated off the facility.

An early map of Mississippi ( c. 1907, showing Forrest County

Upon journey ’ s end, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

On September 14, 1805, he reached the Mississippi Valley near island number 72 ( on his map ), which would one day be Winona, Minnesota, and recorded his impressions in his log.

These are listed in National Register of Historic Places listings in Clarke County, Mississippi, which provides a map link locating them all.

Gulfport, Mississippi ( map center ) is east of Long Beach, MS | Long Beach, west of Biloxi, MS | Biloxi, along the Gulf of Mexico.

Long Beach ( map center ) is east of Pass Christian, Mississippi | Pass Christian and west of Gulfport, Mississippi | Gulfport, along the Gulf of Mexico

Tupelo, Mississippi area map of historic sites

One consequence of their decision to designate, map and name the Jeffersonthe largest as a separate tributary river, is that today the Mississippi river can arguably be called longer than the Missouri river because extensive re-channelization of the streambed for hydroelectric power projects has shortened the river while the Mississippi Delta has grown lengthening the rival river.

Benjamin Franklin and British representatives established the initial U. S. and Canadian borders in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 from a map that mis-represented the source of the Mississippi River.

Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first Europeans to explore and map much of the Mississippi River in 1673.

The first certain knowledge we have of the Dhegiha is 1673 when the French explorer of the Mississippi River, Pere Marquette, drew a crude map which showed the Dhegiha tribes near their historic locations.

His 1718 map, Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi was the first detailed map of the interior of what is now the United States.

However, by 1843, Joseph Nicollet's Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River reinforced the name provided by Franquelin's 1688 map.

A factor in this mistake was the use of the Mitchell Map during the treaty negotiations ; that map showed the Mississippi extending far to the north.

In 1820, he led an expedition to the northern part of the territory, in the northern Great Lakes region in present-day northern Minnesota, in order to map the region and discover the source of the Mississippi River.

Crowley's Ridge runs through the Mississippi embayment in this shaded-relief map.

A map showing the Hernando de Soto | de Soto expedition route through Mississippi, and Arkansas, up to the point de Soto dies.

A map showing the Hernando de Soto | de Soto expedition route thru Mississippi, and Arkansas, up to the point de Soto dies.

He intended to make a " scientific tour " of the country and had a goal of using his expertise to accurately map the Mississippi River Valley.

Upon his arrival in St. Louis, Nicollet gained support for his plan to map the Mississippi River from the American Fur Company and the wealthy Choteau family.

Nicollet's map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River, 1843.