Archaeology at La Pointe-Krebs Plantation in Old Spanish Fort Park (22JA526), Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi Edited by Bonnie L. Gums and Gregory A. Waselkov With contributions by Kevin S. Gibbons, Cameron Gill, Karen L. Leone, Maran E. Little, and Elizabeth J. Reitz Funded by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with a grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and Mississippi Development Authority Archaeological Report 35 Mississippi Department of Archives and History Jackson, Mississippi 2015 Archaeological Report No. 35 Mississippi Department of Archives and History Katie Blount Director Pamela Edwards Lieb Series Editor Chris Goodwin Managing Editor Gregory A. Waselkov and Bonnie L. Gums Technical Editors Cover Illustration: Historic American Buildings Survey—James Butters, photographer, April 24, 1936. FRONT (SOUTHEAST ELEVATION)—Old French Fort, Pascagoula, Jackson County, MS. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. ISBN-13: 978-0-938896-01-2 Copyright © 2015 Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571
[email protected] i Abstract In 2010 the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama received grant funding from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for archaeological research at Old Spanish Fort Park (site 22JA526), in Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi. This project involved analysis and write-up of 1995 salvage excavations and new archaeological investigations at Old Spanish Fort Park, as well as an archaeological survey for historic American Indian sites in the Pascagoula River delta. Among the earliest colonial settlements in the Pascagoula River delta was the ca.