Ms. & AL. Gulf Coast Realtor: Mississippi

Here is a Large Home for sale in Hurley Ms If your looking for a Large Executive style home near work on the Ms or Al. gulf coast, this 4030 square foot secluded luxury home is on a 5 acre parcel with mature trees.

This magnificant home is close to work, shopping, entertainment, great schools, and located in the flourishing community of Hurley Ms.Not many Large homes for sale in the Hurley MS community. Its only (5 minutes to the Alabama state line, 15 minutes to Mobile International Airport. Convieniant to I-10,and I-65 for quick commute. to all major employers from Mobile AL and to Biloxi Ms. and everyting in between. Salt and fresh water fishing just minutes away.

This beautiful custom built executive style home is loaded with many details. High Ceilings, Large foyer, Grand Fireplace, the open floor plan is great for home entertaining. Food preperation in the enormous kitchen will be a pleasure. This home is handicap friendly, and large porches on around three sides.

This four bedroom three, 2 1/2 bath home offers 3,965 square feet of Spacious living.              An executive style Foyer, Formal Dining room, the Large Master suites, Guest bedroom and bath, an office, a laundry room leading to the pation area. A large three car garage/workshop.

 The Beautiful Kitchen has granite counter tops, cherry cabinets with stainless steel appliances, the open family room and kitchen offers a fireplace, with large columns. 

The current owner added many extra luxuries to this large Hurley Ms home ; 3M Solar hurricane window film, A Manicured Landscape, Sodded lawn, French Drains, Gutters, Gunite saltwater pool with heater, and a Storage building.

Call today for your personal tour of this executive style home in Hurley Ms. or for other home's for sale in the area

Visual Tour: WWW.HURLEYMSHOME.COM

Jackson County Blue Ribbon Fair Pascagoula 2011

The Jackson County Fair Blue Ribbon Fair is an annual event held in Pascagoula MS. This year the event will take place Oct. 16-23, 2011. The Jackson County Fair grounds is located at 2902 Shortcut Road Pascagoula MS. Admission to the fair is free, and free parking, although local business surrounding the fair grounds charge a small fee to park on their facility. 

The midway will be full of various rides for children of all ages, many games booths to try and win prizes. Vendors selling a variety of merchandise, food canteen's sellings; hot dogs, corn dogs, sausage dogs, BBQ, Pizza, popcorn, cotton candy, and my favorite the RED candid apples.

The Jackson County civic center located on the fair grounds will host many businesses and organizations, political campaigns, local school displays, and the annual sheriff's gun raffle. You can usually find a variety of performance's on stage nightly.

The blue ribbon event will open its doors Tuesday evening, after judging the items entered into the contest. Some of the categories include; amature photo contest, quilting, sewing, smocking, homemade candy, canned goods, flowers and children's art.  

The Jackson County pavilion will be turned into a livestock display for animals. The FFA organization is always a large part of the prize winning animals that are to be judged.   

Seafood gumbo can be found by many of the food booths that line the front of the midway, these booths are manned by church's from around Jackson County.

Photo courtsy of Pascagoula Fair FB Page

Sunday 10/16/2011   Fair opens 4:00 pm midway & rides

Mon: 9:00AM   Kiddie land opens 4:00   midway & rides

Tues: Family night: reduced prices on rides: 4:00pm

Wed: 8:00 petting zoo opens,  4:00 rides & midway opens

Thurs: 8:00 petting zoo opens,  4:00 midway & rides open

Friday: 8:00 petting zoo opens,  2:00pm childrens day (prices reduced) 6:30 dog show, 11:pm midnight madness for rides $20.00.

Saturday 8:00 petting zoo opens, 11:00am rides open

Sunday: 12:30-5:00 rides open , pay $20.00 for armband and ride ,5:30-9:30 second armband $20.00

Pascagoula River Estates Lot  for sale

If you are looking for a lot with easy access to the pascagoula River in George county here it is. These pascagoula river estate lots were purchased many years ago, and are full of year round residences. For years now people have been trying to buy one on these lots, but no one was selling until now. People from out of town, pull their campers, pitch their tents, and some have built cabins all for the chance to play in the pascagoula river.

This lot for sale is Lot26 Block H, and is within walking distance to the pascagoula river. This lot for sale in the pascagoula river estate and located on lakeside drive, it is 65 x184 x 85x 181

Platt map available so please feel free to call.

Hurley MS. home for sale east central community

Seems a lot of folks are looking to move to more secluded community where quality schools are important, and usually within 30-45 minutes of their employer. 

Hurley ms is one of those places, its pretty self sufficient, with banks, groceries stores, pharmacies, restaurants, and access major road within minutes of home.

Laid back country living where you'll see farmers planting their seasonal crops, cotton, soy bean, peanuts, corn and etc., and if you stay long enough you'll see children at the (FOUR WAY STOP) Hwy 613 & 614 intersection, pointing out a car washes for donations, or selling KK dough-nuts for help with their activities.

This blog was suppose to be about a great home in Hurley Ms for sale. This 3/2, 1700 sqft Home with a sandy bottom creek has been  posted it in the local MLS, its accessible from REALTOR.COM, an ad will be running in the MS. Press and the East Central Link community paper. The closest 200 neighbors will receive a post card next week informing them about the house for sale in their neighborhood.

Here is the link to the virtual tour of the home for sale in the East Central Community of Hurley Ms.

WWW.JohnHolderRd.com

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Vancleave MS, commercial property, Investor

Vancleave Ms.is another hidden community on the Gulf Coast. A peaceful community with churches, schools, football, and community activities. Oh Yea and the beautiful Preserve Golf Course see its website at :   www.preservegc.com

There are crops such as cotton, corn, pecans, and honey in and around the Vancleave area. There is also a lot of timber tracts , many for sale and or lease. Ward Bayou Wildlife Management Area is east of Vancleave, and the Mississippi Sand hill Crane National Wildlife Refuge is to the south. 

Vancleave MS. is equipped with anything you might need, grocery store, bank, insurance, feed stores, dollar stores, restaurants, salons, and everything in between.

Commercial property is 37% lower today than it was a few years ago, Investors are atking advantage of the down market and buying real estate. Property in Vancleave Ms. is also suffering from from the economic decreased in real estate industry. 

Located on the busy HWY 57, is a (1.5) acre commercial parcel with a 3000 square foot building currently leased. This Vancleave Ms. business owner is selling this income producing property to increase his portfolio for additional investments.

This Commercial property has an income of $1,600.00 dollars a month. One of the tenents has been there 8 years without an monthly increase on there lease.

Contact a REMAX Professional to see this commercial property or others in and around theVancleave MS. area.

REMAX TODAY

Alice Broadway Broker/Owner

Office: 2513272.1355

Mobile: 228.623.5495

Moss Point MS. Land For Sale

A great opportunity for an investor or builder to purchase some residential land in Moss Point MS. with paved roads on all four sides, city water and sewer. 

The land for sale is in the Moss Point Ms. area, The street on the west side of property is in the moss point city limits and the property is just inside the county line. 

The property measurements are 163 ft. by 1200 ft. this parcel of land for sale could easily be divided into 12 lots 100x163 ft. easc. Perfect for a builder looking to purchase land for afforable homes. Moss Point Ms. is in need of affordable homes, and this is a desirable area on the east side of moss point ms.  

Stepped out of my house yesterday morning, a small chill in the air, fog hovering over the lake, and the sound of the birds singing. I said a quick prayer for my mom who is was  in MICU and Critical before getting into the car. As I looked up, I saw these amazing tiny crosses (the handy work of our creator), and felt a peace that only God could have sent. 

I have lived around these pine trees all my life and did not know they produced these tiny crosses, I felt they were "just for me".!   I shot these photos with my IPHONE, and posted them on my Face Book page. My sister couldn't believe what she was seeing either, so she googled "pine tree crosses"  and to our amazment there were many stories told about the pine tree crosses.  And I wanted to share mine!

 It's holy week and this this year its been quiet depressing. My dad has experienced major depression since him and mama were separted due to her illness. I never knew depression could kill you, but I've watched my dad go from a healthy working man, to a frail and helpless man with an irrevocable state of mind.

My mama has struggled many years with diabetes, battled dialysis 3 days a week for the past 6/7 years. She had several amputate operations until her left leg was removed above her knee (16 months ago), and had been at a rehabilitation /nursing center for the past 16 months.

She was hospitalized 21 days ago, and I was able to share this photo and tell my mama about the pine tree crosses while I was staying with her one night. I just knew if anyone had known about these it would have been her, she is was an instrument of God, and makes made everyone she comes came into contact with feel special and loved. My mama told me she had never seen these and was truly amazed at the photo, and the story my sister had discovered.  

On April 18, 2011 about 8:40am, just one day after I shared the pine tree crosses with my mama my sister called to tell me: "mama had died."

 I had been trying to prepare myself for her passing for the past 21 days, I knew she was very sick and since she had caught pneumonia and was in MICU, she was critical.. It was very hard to see her struggling to hold on, she never complained about anything EVER!, ddialysis treatments 3 days a week, not being able to walk anymore, she couldn't move her rght arm due to a torn rotator and the dialysis shunt. The doctors and nurses in MICU would ask her how she was and she would say; "I'M FINE..

  She will be so missed, she was the Backbone of our family.!

Its hard to believe I will never be able to have another conversation with my precious mama, but the pine tree crosses and photo sharing was one of my last conversations with her, so I have hopes of seeing them every year from now on. "A simple reminder of our last conversation"

 I don't think any human being could ever prepare for such an empty void. I miss you mama, and love you so much! God you will have to help me and our family with this void, I/we cant do it our self. 

My precious mother got to experiencing holy week with the resurrected Jesus. What a blessing for her. and only the hope of seeing her again one day!

MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

Shirley R. Maples Ellis  Jan 4, 1937- April 18, 2011 

Moss Point Ms,

Benefit Poker RunMarch 27th, first bike out 10:00am from Shingle Mill off Hwy 90 in the Kreole/Orange Grove community.

Poker Run --- We would like to thank the three establishments for allowing the Poker Run participants to stop in and get their card. SEA DAWG's (Eddie Stewart), LITTLE RIVER MARINA (Frankie Brown) and THE BLUFF (Donna Hamilton). 

       The benefit is for a women who has lung cancer. There will be Food (Hamburger & Hot Dog plates.) Not only is this a poker run for bikers all transportation can participate . Many items will be Auctioned off, and you can purchase raffel tickets for drawings on great items. Cake walks, and many other things going on through out the day. And of course LIVE MUSIC from the locals. Come on out and enjoy the day, weather man Mike Reader says its suppose to be beautiful!..

 For more information visit the facebook page.

 http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1055851051704#!/event.php?eid=168635866520804

This photo was taken by a friend of mine on FB. It was taken from the  deck of Rachel's Widows Walk in Moss Point MS. A great place to eat, listen to live music, Karaoke, and enjoy the view of the Escapawpa River. Another spot to check out while visiting the Ms. & Al. Gulf Coast, (you may even get to smell the poggy plant.) Located close to the foot of the HWY 63 bridge in the background. 

Taken on 03/20/2011, known as the super moon, when its suppose to be the closest to the earth.   

 Racheal's Widow Walk is located : 5542 Main Street Moss Point, MS. 39564 (at the foot of Hwy 613 Bridge)  Phone: 228-475-4885

The Story of Rachel

The schooner ship simply known as "Rachel" was built in 1918 as a 3-masted sailing lumber barge. It was 134 footstem to stern with 99 feet of water line and a 50 foot beam. The hull, in which drew 12 feet, was a cypress over white oak. The ship was to be a lumber carrier that routed from Moss Point, Mississippi to the California Bay area by the way of a Panama Drop. The lumber was to be mule-trained over land to the Pacific Ocean and to be reloaded on to a sister ship - which was to be known as "The Rachel Ann" - on the west side of Panama. However, the Rachel Ann was never built.

This sailing trade was the brainstorm of Captain John Riley Bless McIntosh (April 5th, 1819 - May 10th, 1901.) Born in Green Country, Mississippi, Captain John Riley was a noted and admirable schooner captain during the "Freeman Shipping Wars of 1865." Additionally, he was a blockade runner for the Southern Merchants during the Civil War and served as a Captain for the Schranten Shipping. He never, however, owned his own vessel.

Captain John Riley McIntosh was educated in the waters of the Sound and Horn Island Pass. With many trips to countries such as France and South America, he traded goods to help build the confederacy. He was never captured and, despite their attempts, could not be halted by Mark Freeman's team of wreckers that stationed themselves out of the Pascagoula River. When Captain John Riley McIntosh passed on, he left the wealth he did have to his daughter - Rachel. The Schooner "Rachel" was financed by Rachel McIntosh McInnis (Born in the year 1841; died 1992.) After her father's death in 1901, Rachel decided to pursue and carry out her father's dreams. Rachel's husband, Laughlin McInnis, found her ideas to be crazy for "this day and time," as he called it, and told her that the time for this type of sailing venture was over and her money would be better spent on something more practical.

No ship builder wanted to take on the job for an old woman such as her, and found it hard to believe that, such a woman like her, would have one-hundred thousand dollars for the job to get done. Tragically, Rachel could not find the money she needed in these first proceedings. She had hit it when her father died only to forget where she had stashed it. She began to fear that her husband Laughlin found the money and spent it himself. However, in 1916, she opened an old family Bible and, as if it were an act of God, there the money lay. There was also a note from her late husband Laughlin, in which it read: "God bless you and build your Rachel" - Dated 1903. . . The year Laughlin had died.

Rachel contracted John De Angelo and the De Angelo and Son's Shipyard located in Moss Point, Mississippi. However, De Angelo told her that the construction of the ships was a bad investment and in good faith, as a Christian man, he could not build the Rachel for her. As the years went by, John De Angelo died and his son's fell on hard time while trying to keep their business alive. Due to this, they took the contract from Rachel and made plans to build the Rachel and her sister ship, The Rachel Ann.

Completed in 1919 and with no contracts to haul any cargo, The Rachel sat at the dock for three years. Rachel McInnis paid dock fees and upkeep to the De Angelo Brothers so they would keep the Rachel appearing just like new.

In 1922, Rachel McInnis died at the age of 81. The Rachel was taken for dock fees by the De Angelo Ship Yard in the December of 1922 and was later sold to the highest bidder. (The auction price and buyer was and is still currently unknown. Shortly after the sale, The Rachel was renamed, which is sad to be bad luck among sailors and the sea. After the renaming, she set sail to South America but never made it past Griffin Point where she ran aground and damaged he rudder. After repairs were made, she set sail again and grounded near Fort Morgan, Alabama. Only three of the seven men escaped with their lives. With the Rachel grounded and severely damaged, it was burned. Why? Some say for insurance money.

Some people say that Rachel McInnis' spirit would not give up her Father's dream; that she caused the Rachel's grounding, then stood idly by as it burned. Today, many people say the schooner Rachel has been seen, time and time again, on cold winters nighters in December. The rumor is if you really want to find it, you will be able to see the Rachel set sail once again, making her way down the Pascagoula River filed with long-leaf yellow pine.

They say you should never change the name of a ship or a boat - it brings those aboard it bad luck and worse, strips the ship of its dreams.

Big Point Ms. Quick Stop

Stopped to get gasand shot these photos this evening.

Big Point is a small community between Hurley and Escatawpa Ms., friendly service and a convenience location.

We stop here for Gas, ice, cold drinks, and sometimes an occassional ice cream.

Outside is a board where you can find; things for sale, services, local information, pick up your weekly penny pincher, and more than likley see someone you know.

Wish I had been photographing the gas price changes along the gulf coast, maybe I will start. Rumor has it by August it will be $ 5.00 a gallon.