Discover the beauty of Moss Point
Where the Escatawpa and Pascagoula Rivers meet, the River City blends natural beauty, a proud community, and new opportunity on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
For 125 years, the river has shaped who we are. Moss Point was built where the Escatawpa and Pascagoula meet, and that water still carries our commerce, our recreation, and our way of life. Today we are a city on the move, welcoming new industry along our corridors while protecting the natural beauty that makes this place home. Whether you are visiting for the first time, raising a family, or looking for the right place to grow a business, you will find a community proud of its past and building toward its future. Come see the River City for yourself.
Get to know the River City.
Explorers named this place for the moss-draped live oaks that stand where the Escatawpa and Pascagoula Rivers meet, on land first home to the Mohocti. By 1901 the settlement on the riverbank had grown into a city, and it did so in a way no other Mississippi city has, incorporating with more than three thousand residents already in place. It became a city without ever being a town, the only place in Mississippi to do so.
Today Moss Point sits in Jackson County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, served by ZIP codes 39562 and 39563 and area code 228, thirty minutes from both Mobile and Biloxi.
A century and a quarter on the river.
Moss Point was once the largest pine lumber export center in the country, a city built by sawmills and shipped to the world. It carries a Mississippi Blues Trail tradition, a Freedom Summer legacy, and a coast that always rebuilds.
A Mississippi Blues Trail city.
Long before the city incorporated, Moss Point was making music. The African American community here produced a remarkable run of musicians, from Charles Fairley, who played in the bands of Otis Redding and Guitar Slim, to the Nelson brothers, and the sound still carries through the Magnolia High School band today. A marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail stands downtown on Main Street.
A small city with a long bench.
For its size, Moss Point has sent a remarkable number of people out into the world, in sport, science, scholarship, and song.
And many more, honored in the Moss Point Sports Hall of Fame.
Still a working river city.
The same rivers that built the lumber trade still power a real working economy, with new growth taking shape along the corridors.
Aerospace and Unmanned Systems
Northrop Grumman builds aerospace and unmanned systems at Trent Lott International Airport, anchoring a growing advanced manufacturing sector ten minutes from downtown.
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Seafood on the Gulf
Omega Protein has run its menhaden plant on the Escatawpa since the 1950s, the longest-operating industry in the city, with the Ocean Harvesters fleet working the Gulf and the Omega shipyard right here building the boats.
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Mississippi Export Railroad
Headquartered in Moss Point for more than a hundred years, the Mississippi Export Railroad runs a forty two mile short line from Pascagoula to Evanston, Alabama, moving the freight that keeps the coast's industry on the move.
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The River City Mile
New commercial development is taking shape along the Interstate 10 frontage the city calls The River City Mile, thirty minutes from both Mobile and Biloxi.
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Trent Lott International Airport
A general aviation gateway minutes from downtown, the airport keeps the coast connected by air and anchors the city's aerospace and unmanned systems work.
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The shops on Main Street
Downtown Moss Point keeps its Main Street working, anchored by names like Burnham's, in business since 1902, alongside the local shops and storefronts that give the River City its center.
Explore this zoneThe events that bring the River City to life.
Community runs on a full calendar here: the River Jamboree in May, Cruisin' The River City in the fall, Christmas by the River downtown, and the Special Olympics Area 12 Games on the high school track. They are the days the whole city turns out.
Proud of its past, building its future.
One hundred twenty five years on the river, and the next chapter is already underway. Plan a visit and see it.