Pascagoula, one of Mississippi’s largest cities, is the County Seat of Jackson County. It is home to approximately 24,000 residents with a daytime population of perhaps twice that many. Though Pascagoula boasts grand Spanish moss laden live oaks, and splendid historic structures, she also has the breeziness, pleasant ambiance and architecture of a fishing village. While she enjoys a comfortable coexistence with some mammoth industries, she stubbornly maintains the quiet dignity, quality of life and tenacious preservation of natural beauty more characteristic of a rural community.

The village of Pascagoula was incorporated in 1838 and in 1910, Pascagoula and the village of Scranton, which had spring up around a railroad station, were combined and incorporated as the City of Pascagoula.

In 2021, the Scranton Historic District in downtown Pascagoula was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.