Moran Site

The graves came to light by accident, more than once. Human remains turned up in 1914, and in 1969 Camille damaged an art studio and revealed a cemetery near the Biloxi Lighthouse. Katrina exposed it fully in 2005. University of Southern Mississippi teams worked the site from 2007 to 2009 and recorded about thirty mostly male European burials, with a crucifix, shell buttons and shroud pins. Males averaged five feet four inches and females five feet, which suggests hard lives among lower-class settlers. The dead were reburied on December 20, 2013, and a Weeping Angel statue arrived in 2017.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biloxi Lighthouse — steps away
  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.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — steps away
  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.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 1.8 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.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 2.5 mi
  A Point Cadet museum on Biloxi's oyster, shrimp and schooner past, from the packing houses and the shrimpers' unions to the Vietnamese families who rebuilt the industry.

More markers nearby

• Father Ryan House — 0.4 mi
• White House Hotel — 0.5 mi
• Cathedral of the Nativity (B.V.M.) — 0.6 mi
• The Magnolia Hotel — 0.8 mi