 Old Spanish Fort (Pascagoula, Mississippi)

The LaPointe-Krebs House, also known as the "Old Spanish Fort" and "Old French Fort," was built on the shore of Lake Catahoula (Krebs Lake) near what is now Pascagoula, Mississippi, on land granted to the French Canadian Joseph Simon dit La Pointe.Construction of the house is tentatively believed to have begun circa 1757 based on dendrochronology of structural timbers, making it the state's oldest surviving building and only French colonial-era structure still in existence.