St. Stanislaus College

Three Brothers of the Sacred Heart came from France in 1852 to teach in the boys' school Father Stanislaus Buteux ran at Our Lady of the Gulf parish: Basile Venable, Leo Maligne and Joseph Deimer. When war came, students left the school to join the army, and Union troops later marched down the road that became Union Street. The school survived and later turned out athletes, among them Marchy Schwartz, class of 1927, and Doc Blanchard, class of 1942, both celebrated college football stars.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• INFINITY Science Center — 17 mi
  NASA's visitor center for Stennis Space Center, at the Mississippi welcome center near the Louisiana line, with a Saturn V booster outside and a story of five river towns that were moved.
• Ship Island and Fort Massachusetts — 22 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.
• Crosby Arboretum — 24 mi
  A Mississippi State University arboretum in Picayune showing the plants of the Pearl River basin, with Fay Jones's Pinecote Pavilion among the pitcher plant savanna and pines.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 26 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.

More markers nearby

• Old Shieldsboro — 0.2 mi
• 100 Men D.B.A. Hall — 0.4 mi
• St. Augustine's Seminary — 0.9 mi
• Elmwood Manor — 1.6 mi