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"Mississippi's First Settlement - Iberville, a French Canadian, with his two brothers, Bienville and Sauvolle, landed near the present site of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1699, and established Mississippi's first white settlement which they named in honor of the friendly Biloxi Indians. A stone tablet found at "Old Biloxi" is now in the Cabildo at New Orleans. No. 7." Illustration by Norton Stewart. Side 2.
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"Mississippi's First Settlement - Iberville, a French Canadian, with his two brothers, Bienville and Sauvolle, landed near the present site of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1699, and established Mississippi's first white settlement which they named in honor of the friendly Biloxi Indians. A stone tablet found at "Old Biloxi" is now in the Cabildo at New Orleans. No. 7." Illustration by Norton Stewart. Side 2.
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- Item: 3112
- Creator(s): Dixie Press
- Description: "Mississippi's First Settlement - Iberville, a French Canadian, with his two brothers, Bienville and Sauvolle, landed near the present site of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on Easter Sunday, April 19, 1699, and established Mississippi's first white settlement which they named in honor of the friendly Biloxi Indians. A stone tablet found at "Old Biloxi" is now in the Cabildo at New Orleans. No. 7." Illustration by Norton Stewart. Side 2.
- Date: 194-
- City/State: Ocean Springs, Mississippi
- County: Jackson County
- Call Number: PI/2015.0023/Series II
- Filename: 136297-2-postcard.tif