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Early history. Pascagoula Bay, early 18th-century French map. The name Pascagoula, which means "bread eater", is taken from the Pascagoula, a group of Native Americans found in villages along the Pascagoula River some distance above its mouth.
The Pascagoula (also Pascoboula, Pacha-Ogoula, Pascagola, Pascaboula, Paskaguna) were an indigenous group living in coastal Mississippi on the Pascagoula River. The name Pascagoula is a Choctaw term meaning "bread eater".
Origins. Pascagoula, the “Singing River” city beside the Gulf of Mexico, has a deep and rich history as a European settlement that goes back over 300 years. Her name is taken from a band of peaceful Native Americans (Pascagoula means “bread eaters”) who inhabited the area when Hernando De Soto first explored the Mississippi River area ...
The city’s name is derived from Pasca Okla (“Bread People”), the Choctaw name for a small band of Native Americans who once lived in the area. A seaport and a fishing and shipbuilding centre, Pascagoula also has a diversified industrial base that produces paper products, petroleum, and chemicals.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1817 – Mississippi granted statehood. 1820 – Engineer Louis- Frederic de St-Ferol, employed by the Del-mas family, opened the first school in Pascagoula. 1836--First Round Island Lighthouse placed into service. 1838 – Sawmills began to emerge along the Pascagoula River.
The Pascagoula were a small tribe of Indians formerly living on the Pascagoula River in southern Mississippi. They were closely connected with the Biloxi but are now extinct as a separate division. Their name was derived from the Choctaw, who called them the “bread people.”
Pascagoula was part of the French colonial empire for over half a century dating from 1699 when Pierre Lemoyne D’Iberville claimed her for the Sun King, Louis XIV, until the English occupation from 1763 to 1781.
