Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jasrep Precision dating and cultural history of the La Pointe-Krebs House (22JA526), Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA Grant L. Harley a, ⁎ , Justin T. Maxwell b , Joshua S. Oliver c , David H. Holt d , Joshua Bowman e , Marks Sokolosky-Wixon f a Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States b Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States c Ecosystems Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia Crawley, Western Australia, Australia d Department of Geography and Geology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, United States e United States Air Force, 3001-2E Yokota Air Base, Japan f La Pointe-Krebs Foundation, 4602 Fort Street, Pascagoula, MS, United States ARTICLE INFO Keywords: Dendrochronology Dendroarchaeology Gulf Coast Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ABSTRACT The La Pointe-Krebs House in Pascagoula, Mississippi is an important archaeological site (22JA526) located in the southeast United States (US). Despite being subjected to several independent archaeological and archi- tectural studies, the exact calendar year(s) of construction for the original building and subsequent additions was unknown. We identified and sampled 26 timbers throughout the structure that contained bark or a smooth, curved outer surface that would return near-cutting or cutting dates using techniques of dendroarchaeology. A total of 14 samples came from timbers associated with the original 2-room Center Room, 9 from the East Room addition, and 3 from the West Room addition. All sampled timbers derived from a southern yellow pine tree species, most likely Pinus palustris (Mill.; longleaf pine) which was once widely distributed across the southeast US. The structure chronology spanned the period 1572–1932 CE with an inter-series correlation of r = 0.49 (1595–1788; p < 0.001) and was correlated against a regional P. palustris reference chronology from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (n = 194 years, r = 0.40; t = 6.03, p < 0.001). Compilation of the cutting- and near-cutting dates revealed three distinct dating groups of timbers. First, three timbers from the Center Room have cut dates of 1757 CE. Second, two timbers in the East Room had cutting dates of 1762 CE. Third, three timbers with bark located over the Center and East Rooms dated to 1772 CE and were most likely repairs made to the roof fol- lowing Bernard Roman's Hurricane in September 1772. No samples collected from the West Room provided near-cutting or cutting dates. The Gulf Coast region of the US has strong ties to French culture, heritage, and history, and the La Pointe-Krebs House played an important role during the creation of that culture in the region that still exists today. 1. Introduction As a subfield of dendrochronology, the science of den- droarchaeology can provide valuable and accurate environmental, temporal, and cultural information on wooden structures to address a wide range of research questions. One of the first studies in the eastern United States (US) to apply techniques of dendroarchaeology to address construction histories of log structures was Stahle (1979) throughout the State of Arkansas. During the 1980s and 1990s, however, few dendroarchaeological studies were performed in the East. Yet the past ca. 10 years has seen the revitalization of dendroarchaeology in the East (Nash and Copenheaver, 2017), with successful dating of structures in Arkansas (Therrell and Stahle, 2012), Michigan (Harley et al., 2011; Rochner et al., 2017a), Indiana (Matheus et al., 2017), West Virginia (Cockrell et al., 2017), Tennessee (Grissino-Mayer and van de Gevel, 2007; Henderson et al., 2009; Mann et al., 2009; Slayton et al., 2009; Stachowiak et al., 2014, 2016; Grissino-Mayer et al., 2017), Virginia (Grissino-Mayer et al., 2013; Druckenbrod et al., 2017), North Carolina (Van De Gevel et al., 2009; Rochner et al., 2017b), Georgia (Grissino- Mayer and Hally, 2017; DeWeese et al., 2017), Florida (Grissino-Mayer et al., 2010; Garland et al., 2012), and Mississippi (Harley et al., 2017). Despite this rapid increase in dendroarchaeological studies in the East, the Gulf Coast region of the US remains underrepresented. In south-central Mississippi, Harley et al. (2017) combined https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.031 Received 11 December 2017; Received in revised form 24 April 2018; Accepted 27 April 2018 ⁎ Corresponding author at: 875 Perimeter Drive, MS-3021, Moscow, ID 83844-3021, United States. E-mail address: gharley@uidaho.edu (G.L. Harley). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20 (2018) 87–96 2352-409X/ © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. T