Ocean Springs: Iberville watching, sunrise

            Iberville's statue looks out from Fort Maurepas Park, in Ocean Springs, in the state of Mississippi (in the Gulf Coast Region of the US), over the Mississippi Sound, on a clear early morning in mid-October.

Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville (1661-1706), was the founder of Fort Maurepas, along the Gulf of Mexico, in 1699 -- later the site of the city of Ocean Springs (in the modern state of Mississippi) -- and the French colony of Louisiana / la Louisiane, both under Louis XIV of France.

Fort Maurepas Park (also called Fort Maurepas State Park but located within Ocean Springs) was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina, 29 August 2005, and the reconstruction of the fort was destroyed. Today, a new visitor center has been built overlooking a protected wetland area, a new playground is provided, and, beyond the statue of Iberville, the Chester M. McPhearson, Jr., Pier extends into the Mississippi Sound for the public to enjoy.

Iberville (or Le Moyne d'Iberville) was an elder brother of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville (1680-1767 or 1768), the founder of New Orleans. Because Fort Maurepas was initially founded in 1699 and La Nouvelle Orléans not until 1718, Ocean Springs considers itself older than New Orleans.

(Information about the Le Moyne brothers Iberville and Bienville from the Louisiana Historical Association's Dictionary of Louisiana Biography and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, both consulted online 4 November 2015. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online gives a death date in March 1767, whereas the DLB dates it in March 1768.)

Ocean Springs is a small city located between the larger cities of Biloxi and Pascagoula, along the Mississippi Sound, sheltered from the open Gulf of Mexico by narrow barrier islands, particularly Deer Island. Perhaps best known as the home of artist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965), today it draws other artists and art lovers, retirees, and those who appreciate its continuing feeling of a small town combined with cultural activities and restaurants-cafés representing a variety of cuisines. Along and just off its shore can be seen fishing boats and sailboats; tourists and residents walking, jogging, or gazing at the water; and active seabirds.

  [Ocean Springs Iberville watching pier 2015 oct 15 c; IMG_5831]

Taken in: United States / Mississippi / Ocean Springs (show map)

Taken on: October 15, 2015

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