Point Cadet — Where Biloxi Began

The eastern tip of the Biloxi peninsula where the shrimping industry took root. Point Cadet was the working-class, immigrant neighborhood — Croatian, Vietnamese, Cajun — where the cannery workers and boat captains lived within walking distance of the docks. The Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum sits here. The Small Craft Harbor ties up the working fleet. The Biloxi Shrimping Trip departs from here. A Coast Guard Air Station operated seaplanes from Point Cadet during WWII, watching for German submarines in the Gulf. The neighborhood was devastated by Katrina but has rebuilt around the same waterfront that defines it: the place where boats come in and seafood goes out.