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St. Martin, MS is a community that is located in Jackson County http://www.century21.com/ and is a census â€" designated place which is located along the Mississippi Gulf Coast due south of Interstate 10 which is bordered by the City of Ocean Springs to http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730378 the east, the Biloxi Bay to the south, and the City of DIberville to the west.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of St. Martin was recorded as http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730378 7,730 in 2010.



The name of St. Martin originated from a French Military Officer, Raymond St. Martin de Jorquiboey, that lived in this part of Mississippi in the middle of the century. Descendants of the St. Martin family members, for which the community is named, still are living in this area.

The land boom of the mid 1920s transformed the history of St. Martin. A consortium of investors from Chicago and New York City became enchanted with the magnificent environment, temperate climate, and also very convenient railroad transport provided to snow birds that lived in the Midwest. These capitalists selected a location in eastern St. Martin at the mouth of Old Ft Bayou to http://www.kellycreely.com/Web/AR657729/CustomContent/index/5730378 build a wintertime holiday resort. It was named Gulf Hills since small streams that fed into Old Ft Bayou dissected the elevated rolling hillside terrain.



Today, St. Martin is the Second fastest growing community in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPJa3O29U8 Jackson County. Over the past 10 years, the populace has grown by eighteen percent.



St. Martin has a gorgeous native environment offers many opportunities for recreation as well as eco-tourism.