Boggsdale

Hale Boggs left Long Beach for Tulane and New Orleans, and his record was more contested than a list of offices suggests. In 1956 he signed the Southern Manifesto against desegregation and voted against the civil rights acts of 1957, 1960 and 1964, then supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As the youngest member of the Warren Commission he later defended its findings. On October 16, 1972, a twin-engine Cessna carrying Boggs and Alaska Representative Nick Begich disappeared between Anchorage and Juneau. The search ended after 39 days, and no wreckage was ever found.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 15 mi
  A barrier island twelve miles off the Mississippi coast with a brick fort burned half-built in 1861, a Union prison camp, and the garrison post of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 16 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 16 mi
  A cast-iron tower lit in 1848 on the Biloxi beachfront, kept by women for most of its first century and still in service after Camille and Katrina.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 18 mi
  Frank Gehry's pavilions on the Biloxi waterfront, built around the pottery of George Ohr, the self-styled Mad Potter, and the rebuilt Pleasant Reed House.

More markers nearby

• Early Long Beach — 2.4 mi
• Dixie "White House" — 3.4 mi
• Dr. Felix Henry Dunn — 4.4 mi
• Our Mother of Mercy Catholic Church — 4.7 mi