GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Twenty-nine properties lost to Hurricane Katrina will immortalize with cast aluminum markers.

“So much damage was done by Katrina that there was a great need to clean up the debris, but little time to enter into the proper consultation required by the National Historic Preservation Act,” Kenneth P’Pool, deputy state historic preservation officer, told The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/1PpAr3c ).

The National Historic Preservation Act requires federal agencies to consider the effects their projects may have on historic properties. The agencies must review background information and consult with the state historic preservation officer, tribal historic preservation officer and other knowledgeable sources.

Using GPS data, FEMA’s Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation program surveyed historic districts, properties and archaeological sites in the six Coast counties most affected by Katrina and created a database that will help emergency-management officials in future disasters.

“We now have a much better handle on the numbers, locations and types of historic properties and where they’re distributed around the Gulf Coast,” P’Pool said.

One of the buildings being marked is the wooden Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, officials said. The engraved marker includes the bell tower in front of the church — the only part of the Carpenter Gothic-style church to survive Hurricane Camille in 1969.

“We thought it especially important to have sketches of the destroyed buildings on the markers,” P’Pool said. “It gives people an appreciation of what was lost. Some of these illustrations are the last examples of architectural styles on the coast.”

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