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During the early 1970's French settlers once cautiously sailed up the beautiful Pearl River in Hancock County looking for a New World home. Later, swashbuckling pirates took refuge in this historic stream in South Mississippi after raiding merchant ships. Today, a different cargo leaves a wake in the blue waters en route to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mississippi Test Facility. The huge barge being pushed above contains the free world's largest rocket booster, on its way to the national rocket testing facility for extensive captive firings. Later versions of this huge rocket, first stage of the Apollo/Saturn V, will boost the first Americans to the Moon.

Pretty sure this description should be changed. The original source states 1700s, and while it is possible that some French settlers sailed up the Pearl River looking for a new home in the 1970s, and that even during the late twentieth century an unusual case of piracy may have occurred, it seems unlikely.

South Mississippi can be a strange place, but not this strange.

--nick wilson — Preceding unsigned comment added by Traicovn (talk • contribs) 19:20, 13 July 2013 (UTC)