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of the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce. Circa 1907. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Shops offer local arts and crafts and, in the Chamber office, a year-round exhibit of paintings by local artists. Complimentary passes to Walter Anderson Museum will be issued here. Tour maps at this location.
2.	THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF OCEAN SPRINGS - 921 Ocean Avenue, circa 1877. The oldest existing church in the city. In 1978 additional property on Washington Avenue, adjacent to the church property, was purchased and was used for various purposes, including a manse, until it was renovated in 1985 to accommodate the church’s week-day Montessori pre-school.
3.	FORT MAUREPAS is a replica of the first French fort built in
1699	as the capital of the Louisiana Colony. From here the French moved out to found the cities of New Orleans, Mobile and Pascagoula. The original site is believed to be about 100 yards west and is marked by a cement stairway leading up to a monument. A fenced walkway allows you to walk along the length of the site and view the beach where the French landing was made. Hostesses: Ocean Springs and Day Lilly Garden Clubs.
4.	WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM - 510 Washington Avenue, Ocean Springs. The Museum showcases more than 150 pieces by the famed Ocean Springs artist, woodcarver and naturalist. Special exhibits are often on display in this beautiful building flooded with light. Opened in May, 1991, this unique contemporary structure adjoins the Ocean Springs Community Center. Refreshments will be served. Hostesses: The Gulf Hills Garden Club.
GAUTIER/MOSS POINT/PASCAGOULA JACKSON COUNTY WELCOME CENTER OLD SPANISH FORT Sunday, March 24, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Gautier Pilgrimage Chairman - Mrs. Lynn Smith Moss Point Chairman - Mrs. Gladys Hackler Pascagoula Chairman - Mrs. Dorothy Roberts Old Spanish Fort Chairman - Mrs. Anna Mai Jamison
1.	JACKSON COUNTY WELCOME CENTER, Interstate I 10, one mile west of the Alabama State Line. Opened in June of 1984, this building is a replica of a colonial style southern mansion. The ground floor features two parlors. It is furnished in antique period pieces dating from 1700 and has draperies styled in keeping with the era. A native wildflower exhibit will be featured. Hostesses: Moss Point Garden Club. Maps will be available here.
2.	GAUTIER - OLDFIELDS, 1901 Watersedge, Seacliff Subdivision, Gautier. Gautier’s only remaining antebellum home, built in 1845 by politician, planter and C.S.A. officer, Col. Alfred E. Lewis. During the War Between the States, Union soldiers occupied the home in the Col.’s absence and forced Mrs. Lewis and her children to live in great hardship in the attic. The Greek Revival home was saved from their torch by the wit of a loyal servant who claimed he was to inherit the manor after the war. Named “Oldfields" by the William Grinsteads who purchased it in 1905, the house later became home during the 1940’s to Sissy Grinstead and her husband the artist Walter Anderson and their four small children. Once surrounded by pecan and citrus orchards the remaining 51 acres was subdivided in the 1960’s. Oldfields has been recently restored to pristine condition by the Ricardo Merlos family, who purchased the home in 1988. Oldfields is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Members of Gautier Garden Club will serve refreshments on the veranda, with its uninterrupted view of Horn Island.
3.	MOSS POINT - HOME OF DR. AND MRS. RUDY KOSKI,
2606 Duck Lake Drive. This waterfront home, completed in 1994 is located in beautiful Sawmill Point. Of modified Carolina Cottage style, it features three dormers with elliptical windows above a large wrap-around front porch. French doors are used throughout the house. The nine foot ceilings and open floor plan, along with the white interior and white furnishings, give a light, airy, fresh look. From the screened back porch or the sun room with it’s wall of windows overlooking Duck Lake, off the Pascagoula River, magnificent Mississippi sunsets can be observed year-round. Moss draped trees shade the back yard down to the water’s edge where herons, egrets, ibis, white and brown pelicans and other birds can be seen along with an occasional alligator. Hostesses: Moss Point Garden Club.
4.	PASCAGOULA - HOME OF MR. & MRS. TOM HIGGINS,
1700	Gallery Street, Delmas Estate Subdivision. The Higgins home, which they designed, has been featured in Mississippi Today. This eclectic home contains mementos collected by the couple while they lived in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Also featured are antique "Grand Rapids” furniture. The lovely yard includes a formal fish pond, and gardens which feature native perennials. Light refreshments served by members of Pascagoula Garden Club.
5.	OLD SPANISH FORT & KREBS CEMETERY, Fort Drive, Pascagoula. From U.S. 90, tum north on Pascagoula Street, take a left on Lake Avenue, and past Lake Avenue Elementary School. The fort is the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley. It was erected c. 1718 on land granted to the Duchess de Chaumont, sister of French Admiral Joseph Simon de la Pointe. Marie Josephine, daughter of de la Pointed, married Baron Hugo von Krebs in the early 1730’s. Baron von Krebs was a planter, surgeon, and inventor of a cotton gin prior to Eli Whitney’s. Kreb's Cemetery, which occupies a comer of the grounds is the burying place for many of the Baron’s descendants. It is shaded by massive oaks and filled with azaleas. Hostesses: Pilgrimage Garden Club. Refreshments will be served.
LONG BEACH
Monday, March 25, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Mrs. Patti E. Wilson, Chairman
1.	LONG BEACH GARDEN CENTER, 201 E. Fifth (comer of South Burke and Fifth). Organized in July 1930, the club is now in its 66th year, and the 43rd in its own building, one of the few individually-owned garden club houses in Mississippi. Maps are available and refreshments will be served.
2.	THE OCEAN WAVE QUILTERS exhibit in the Parish Hall of ST. PATRICK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 452 W. Beach Blvd. They will display a variety of beautiful handmade items including new and old quilts in various sizes, wall hangings, pillows and wearable items.
3.	HOME OF VANEAN AND DUNNY GREEN, 230 S. Lang is the only known house in Long Beach built by Carroll Ishee. It is built into the lush landscape with plenty of glass windows and natural building materials. Ishee (an Attorney) was a self-educated building designer, and was inspired by the simplicity of Japanese designs and by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house communes with nature, from the simplistic front entrance through to the back deck, around the pool and into the master bedroom suite. Although furnished eclectically with family antiques, the landscaping by Vanean (a local landscape designer) becomes part of the decor.
4.	HOME OF LINDA & RICHARD MUELLER, 720 Parkwood Dr. was custom built for the Muellers by Jones Builders in 1981. The six bedroom ranch style house is furnished with antiques, and


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