Graveline

Jean-Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline, captain of the Pascagoula militia, was among the first settlers of Pascagoula and of old Mobile. His son of the same name, born about 1717 on Massacre Island, became a trader and militia leader who led Choctaw auxiliaries and traded into Creek country. He was jailed once over a voyage to Havana and again on Cat Island, accused of salvaging wrecked ships. In 1757 soldiers mutinied and took him hostage. Governor Kerlerec had him court-martialed, and he was executed on the wheel in New Orleans on June 7.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge — 2.3 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.
• LaPointe-Krebs House (Old Spanish Fort) — 5.4 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.
• Round Island Lighthouse at Lighthouse Park — 5.9 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.
• 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

• Eric Clark Coastal Preserve — 2.9 mi
• Gautier School — 3.8 mi
• The Old Place — 4.0 mi
• Moss Point Blues — 5.1 mi