The concrete bridge allowed cars more access to U.S. Highway 90.
A 22-foot stretch of paved highway opened from Gulfport to
Biloxi. D’Iberville concrete drawbridge replaces 1901 wooden
Biloxi Back Bay Bridge 1927: Mississippi River floods 3 million
acres of Delta Land The worst natural disaster in American
history flooded 27,000 square miles in 170 counties across 7
states. The flood displaced 700,000 people and killed hundreds
more. Image: Guards used lanterns like this one while patrolling
the levee at night looking for structural weaknesses that could
become a break or crevasse. 1927: Dennis Murphree becomes
Mississippi’s forty-second governor 1927: Mississippians deal
with devastating effects of flood of 1927 October 7, 1927:
Charles Lindbergh lands Spirit of St. Louis at Davis Field in
Jackson Lindbergh was on a tour of 82 American cities, flying a
distance of 22,000 miles.Link to the catalog