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    The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SI) was constructed in the state of Mississippi, USA, at the turn of the 20th century to open a vast expanse of southern...
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    counter a wholesale panic, and the Gulf and Ship Island went into receivership in 1896. Although the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad changed hands to Joseph...
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    Joseph T. Jones (category Monuments and memorials in Mississippi)
    Gulf and Ship Island Railroad in Mississippi, co-founded the City of Gulfport and developed its seaport. Joseph T. Jones was born to Albanus A. and Jane...
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    south Mississippi was provided by the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad at the turn of the 20th century. These railroads provided an inexpensive means for moving...
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    founded in 1904 to take advantage of a railway line of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. Residents moved their buildings over from the original settlement...
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  • Bay and Western Railroad Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Gulf and Ship Island Railroad...
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    Wiggins Depot (Mississippi) (category Former Illinois Central Railroad stations)
    Depot was constructed in Wiggins, Mississippi in 1910 by the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SIRR) to serve as a replacement for the company's original...
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  • situating them on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The expression "Deal Go Down" comes from the card game "Georgia Skin". The railroad serves as more than...
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  • association with the construction of an early railroad in the area, the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The town was originally called Bullis after one...
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    established timber and turpentine production as early industries. The Perkinston community benefited from the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, which was constructed...
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    Festival. Mize was settled by Europeans by the early 1900s on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad lines, though immigrants from Scotland may have settled the...
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    Gulfport station (category Former Louisville and Nashville Railroad stations)
    served the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (which was succeeded by the Illinois Central Railroad). Former Louisville...
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    Taylorsville was established on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad in 1900. The site was selected by an employee of the railroad, and soon after a post office was...
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    seat. In the late 1880s, two railroads (the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad and the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad) came to New Albany, about...
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    resorted to bucket brigades and dynamite to stop the fire, which was confined to the east side of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The fire consumed 41 business...
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    through Hattiesburg to New Orleans. The completion of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SIRR) from Gulfport, to the capital of Jackson, Mississippi...
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    incorporated as Williamsburg Depot in 1899. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad had completed construction, and bypassed Williamsburg, the county seat at that...
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  • Davis and Lawrence counties, Mississippi, United States. Its ZIP code is 39656. Oak Vale is located on the former Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (and sold...
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    industrial growth and community development. Notable railway construction during this era included the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad; New Orleans and Northeastern...
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  • Mississippi, United States. Lux is located on the former Gulf and Ship Island Railroad and was once home to a lumber mill. Lux was also formerly home...
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  • The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway (AGR) Alabama Southern Railroad (ABS) BNSF Railway (BNSF)...
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    called Gulf & Ship Island Railroad LLC which is also using a classic railroad's name: A Gulf & Ship Island Railroad already existed between 1882 and 1925...
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    Gulfport, Mississippi (category Port cities and towns of the United States Gulf Coast)
    city was founded by William H. Hardy, who was president of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SIRR) that connected inland lumber mills to the coast. He...
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  • American Marks Company GSF - Georgia Southern and Florida Railway GSI - Gulf and Ship Island Railroad GSIX - Gas Supply, Williams Energy Ventures GSLX...
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    Petit Bois, Horn, East Ship, West Ship, and Cat islands are accessible only by boat. The 4,080 acres (16.5 km2) Gulf Islands Wilderness offers special...
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  • the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (G&SIRR) was constructed. The main line of the G&SIRR extended 160 miles (257 kilometers) from Gulfport, north and northwest...
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  • six general stores, two lumber companies, and a sawmill. It was a station on the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. Closure of the station was requested in...
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  • miles south. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, a mainline railroad, was built through Hub in 1899. Hub once had two operating sawmills and had a population...
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    Dog Island is located in the northwestern Florida Gulf coast, just 3.5 mi (5.6 km) off-shore from Carrabelle, in Franklin County, Florida. There is, by...
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  • Middleton and four years later the name changed to Ship Island, Ripley & Kentucky Railroad. In 1889, the railroad was sold to the Gulf & Chicago Railroad in...
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