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MISSISSIPPI ARCHAEOLOGY ASSOCIATION

GULF COAST CHAPTER

MEETING FEBRUARY 13, 2010

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Society joins with USM, Chevron, CEI

to explore Greenwood Island gravesites

Members of our Society participated in an anthropology expedition Dec. 28 on Greenwood Island in East Pascagoula, which was the site of Camp Jefferson Davis at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848.

 Twice in the last 30 years, local fisherman have discovered wooden coffins containing the remains of U.S. veterans exposed by ongoing beach erosion. After years of wondering, “what else is out there,” the Jackson County Historical and Genealogical Society (JCHGS), Coastal Environments, Inc. (CEI) and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History teamed up with Southern Miss for a final comprehensive search of the beach. Read more.

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History is being reborn in our community with the programs and projects of the Jackson County Historical and Genealogy Society. Attendance at our monthly meetings continues to grow, nurtured by a diversity of entertaining and educational programs.  

We have enjoyed each other’s fellowship as we learn about our local history and identify ways to protect the heritage of our past. We are a publishing society with an annual journal (free to members), and this year a Cemetery Book that celebrates the lives of 45,000 citizens in a format valuable to genealogists and historians. 

We meet the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the meeting room at Pascagoula Public Library. Meetings last about an hour and we regularly have refreshments and a free door prize drawing for a historical book. Meetings and membership are open to the public. We serve all of Jackson County's communities and municipalities.