These settlers, lacking agricultural experience, relied on their limited rations and hunting. The friendly Biloxi Tribe provided much-needed agricultural products.

Then, in the early 1500s, the renowned Spanish conquistador and explorer, ... While Biloxi and other settlements in the area managed to survive, only a handful of settlers remained.

In the early 1900s, Biloxi transformed from a small coastal settlement into the “Seafood Capital of the World.” Here is how it earned that title, and lost it.