FORT MAUREPAS
Site — Ocean Springs, Mississippi
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fort-maurepas-ocean-springs-mississippi/

1699—Iberville’s first French settlement on the Gulf.

Fort Maurepas is a site in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 1699—Iberville’s first French settlement on the Gulf. HauntHunt files it with the colonial era, military history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Fort Maurepas was Louisiana's first capital — the 1699 fort Iberville built on Biloxi Bay when he couldn't find a site on the flooding Mississippi, the first European settlement in Mississippi and the colony's capital until Mobile. Bienville was the teenage lieutenant; the Iberville stone claimed it for France.
The fort was the improvisation — the 'elevated place' on the bay's northeast shore that was the best they could find, the four bastions and twelve guns built in three weeks, the 80-man garrison left when Iberville sailed home. The capital moved to Mobile in 1710; the fort faded.
The site is still there — the replica at Fort Maurepas Park, the Ocean Springs location that's the coast's origin, the stone that says '1699.' The file keeps the fort: the 1699 landing, the first capital, and the site that's Mississippi's French beginning.
Fort Maurepas is the archive's French file — the first capital, Iberville's landing, and the fort that started the Gulf Coast.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Fort Maurepas is the archive's French file — Louisiana's first capital, the 1699 settlement, and the site that's Mississippi's origin.
A fort that was the first capital keeps its bay — the file's suggestion being that Maurepas's hold is the founding: Iberville's choice, the 80-man garrison, and the site that's the colony's start.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence at the fort site. Fort Maurepas in Ocean Springs, Mississippi carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. 'Fort Maurepas' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Fort Maurepas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Maurepas)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1699] The 1699 settlement is documented; the replica is on site. Fort Maurepas' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Fort Maurepas' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Fort Maurepas — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Maurepas

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