Ship Island

Ship Island is a famous tourist spot off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

Ship Island was first home to an old Civil War fort. This was a fort for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the Civil War, it was built as a quarantine zone. It was used to quarantine incoming immigrants. Sometimes the sick could not make it and die on the island. They were burned in a furnace which still sits on the island. The biggest event on ship island would have to be from Hurricane Camille which cut through the island in 1969. It split the island into two sections. One being the tourist part of the island with the Civil War fort and one being the old Quarantine port.

Ship Island was basicly a tourist spot to see dolphins, forests, and the Civil War fort. But then Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which cut many rips onto the island and devastated the forest. It also changed the shape of the entire island. However the Civil War Fort survived the storm.