Pascagoula Street Railroad and Power Company

Pascagoula's ice plant was bought by Hermes Gautier in 1936 from the Electric Light and Power plant. Ice mattered on this coast because boats packed it in their hulls to keep the day's catch fresh, markets used it to display seafood, and families kept it in iceboxes until cooking. Block ice faded in the 1960s and 1970s as refrigerated trucks, railcars and modern ice machines spread. This plant kept making it, and it has been described as the state's only remaining block ice plant that runs an ammonia compressor system.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Round Island Lighthouse at Lighthouse Park — 0.4 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) — 0.7 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 — 8.2 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 — 17 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

• MS Gulf Coast Blues & Heritage Festival — 1.4 mi
• St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church — 1.5 mi
• R.A. Farnsworth Summer House — 1.9 mi
• Camp Jefferson Davis — 2.2 mi