Remembering Hurricane Camille

Tower of the Church of the Redeemer, Biloxi, after Hurricane Camille

“Historically speaking, the Mississippi Gulf Coast received a great blow as a result of Hurricane Camille. At least 15 well known landmarks were wiped out, others impaired.

• At Biloxi: the Wood home at Oak and East Beach [badly damaged, but later repaired]; Glennan home at Main and Central Beach; Magnolia Hotel [actually, it was badly damaged, but later moved and repaired]; Church of Redeemer; the lighthouse keeper’s home; the sho-fly; lighthouse on Baldwin Wood property and yacht club.
• At D’Iberville: the Santa Cruz place.
• At Gulfport: Merry Mansion
• At Pass Christian: the Frank Wharton place; yacht club; St. Paul Catholic and Trinity Episcopal Church.
• At Waveland: Pirate House

Those found partially destroyed and repairable include:

• At Gautier: the Old Place.
• At Delisle: Oblate Fathers home on the bay.
• At Biloxi: Beauvoir Shrine; the Tullos home and Carquotte (Old Brick House on Bay).
• At Pass Christian: Dixie White House; Ballymere; Xavier Hall (formerly Grey Castle); famed Japanese gardens of the Coopers; old Field Home, and Old Spanish Fort.
• Also, Fort Massachusetts and outlaying islands”

Trinity Episcopal Church, Pass Christian, built 1849

Congregation of Trinity Episcopal Church, Pass Christian, after Camille destroyed the church building (in background)