Gautier School

A local bond issue paid for the 1941 building, dedicated on January 5. A reinforced-concrete Streamline Moderne school with four classrooms, an auditorium, library and cafeteria, it became the place Gautier met: voting precinct, community center, home of the town's first Parent-Teacher Association, and the room where First Baptist Church organized. It taught grades one to eight until 1967, when older pupils rode buses to Pascagoula. A separate school for Black children, built about 1921, served the community until the mid-1950s. In 1962 Ocean Springs architect C. H. Lindsley planned an addition and rear classroom buildings.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Round Island Lighthouse at Lighthouse Park — 3.5 mi
  What survives of the 1832 Round Island light, moved to the foot of the Pascagoula River bridge, with a free walking pathway through nine eras of Pascagoula history.
• LaPointe-Krebs House (Old Spanish Fort) — 3.5 mi
  The oldest standing structure in Mississippi, a French colonial plantation house in Pascagoula, set on land where Pascagoula and Biloxi peoples lived before the colonists came.
• Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge — 5.2 mi
  A refuge for one of the rarest birds in North America and the wet pine savanna it needs, created in 1975 as the first refuge established under the Endangered Species Act.
• Walter Anderson Museum of Art — 13 mi
  A museum in downtown Ocean Springs built around the artist who rowed to Horn Island to paint, with his 1952 murals of Iberville's 1699 landing and the Seven Climates of the town.

More markers nearby

• The Old Place — 0.3 mi
• Eric Clark Coastal Preserve — 2.9 mi
• Graveline — 3.8 mi
• Pascagoula Street Railroad and Power Company — 3.8 mi