The Coast's colonial era is represented by the Old Spanish Fort/Krebs House, which is operated as a museum in Pascagoula. This structure was built around 1775, not 1718 as is popularly believed, so it probably dates to the time when the Coast was part of the British Empire. The building is located on part of a land cession that was a French plantation during the early 1700s, which may have given rise to the idea that it is a much older structure. Other points of interest within the Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area for the colonial era include the site of several French burials, visible through a window in the floor of Moran's Art Studio on Porter Avenue in Biloxi, and several cannons, salvaged from a probable eighteenth-century French shipwreck in Biloxi Bay, which are mounted near the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor.