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About Biloxi / Gulfport
The land stretching along Mississippi's Gulf Coast has evolved in numerous ways since the French settled here back in 1699. Today, glimpses of the area's storied past are evident in the weathered faces of the local fishermen and sprawling mansions surrounded by towering moss-draped oaks. Modernity, too, is represented... [read more]
Biloxi / Gulfport Factoid
In the language of the Sioux people that first inhabited the Gulf Coast area, the word Biloxi means "first people." It was so named because the area was the site of the first French settlement in the Mississippi Valley in 1699, founded by explorers looking for the mouth of the Mississippi River.