Old Gulfport High School

The brick school at 2010 15th Street went up in 1923 and taught several generations of Gulfport teenagers; a local historian said many residents in their fifties and sixties had a parent, grandparent or aunt who went there. The state designated it a Mississippi Landmark in 1999, and the General Services Administration restored it between 2001 and 2003 as an annex to the federal courthouse named for Dan M. Russell Jr. The marker was unveiled on the front lawn in October 2014, after a robotics demonstration by current Gulfport High students.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 11 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 — 11 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.
• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 13 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.
• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 13 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

• Gulfport-Harrison County Library — steps away
• 1863 East Pascagoula Raid — 0.4 mi
• Gulfport Civil Rights Wade-In — 0.4 mi
• Soria City — 0.6 mi