(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE The Branch of the Bank of the State of Alabama at Mobile vs. fi fa 4 cases William…
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PATRON + Marine Hospital of Mobile
MARINE HOSPITAL (U. S.) AT MOBILE The Marine Hospital at Mobile, Alabama was the oldest building used as a Marine Hospital in 1914. It was occupied as a marine hospital…
PATRON – Mobile, Alabama 1840 – default on indenture, property sold
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama March 13, 1840) MOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY OFFICE No. 66 Commerce St. UP STAIRS The Mobile Marine Railway and Insurance Company continues to make…
PATRON – Legal notices for Squire, Talcott, Worsham, Toulmin, Deas and others from 1840 Mobile, Alabama
…weeks, in the Mobile Commercial Register and Patriot, a newspaper printed and published in the city of Mobile. M.J. McRAE, Register. STATE OF ALABAMA Mobile County in Chancery Philip McLoskey,…
Mobile, the emporium of Alabama was once completely blown up
…later Mobile received them or shared in their profits. River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama – ca. 1906 – Detroit Publishing Beautiful southern homes Mobile was a brilliant social…
PATRON – Sheriff sale of lands owned by Cowan, Seaman, Green, Post, and many others in Mobile 1840
(Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE Planters’ & Merchants’ Bank of Mobile vs. fi fa Robert Cowan and Edward Seaman Will be sold for…
Gen. LaFayette letters- Mobile prepared for his visit which included local Freemasons
…Hall, City of Mobile, March 16th AD 1825 7 o’clock P.M. “Resolved by the Companions of Mobile Chapter No. 3 that a Committee of the Chapter be appointed to Act…
PATRON – Sheriff sales, slave sales and mortgage sales Mobile, Alabama 1840
(Genealogy information Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALES James Hollingsworth, Wm. Cunningham and James Nolan James C. Sutton Mary Ann Sutton, Adm’x Will be…
PATRON – Names of Insurance agents, Lawyers and Court Notice in Mobile in 1840
…Bay of Mobile, thence along the Bay of Mobile to the place of beginning, excepting therefrom 39 acres belonging to William Edwards, and being his present residence; the said Edwards…
PATRON+ Amazing letter from 1854 reporting on the Yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama
…miles from Mobile, at the present terminus of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. It is situated on a beautiful plateau of pine land, about 400 feet above tide water, and…
PATRON – Sheriff’s Sale of Real Estate in Mobile, Alabama March 13, 1840
( Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) SHERIFF SALE Sanford & Cleveland vs. fi fa William Kitchen Will be sold for cash, in front of the…
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama, oldest college in Alabama and oldest Catholic College in Southeast [film & pics]
SPRING HILL COLLEGE Mobile, Alabama Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama is the oldest Catholic college in the Southeast is also the third oldest Jesuit College and the fifth oldest…
Editorial provides a glimpse of Mobile during Spanish days [film of vintage homes]
This editorial provides a glimpse of Mobile before 1858 AN 1858 VIEW ON HISTORICAL PRESERVATION IN MOBILE By Jack D.L. Holmes, Ph.D. Director, Louisiana Collection Series (Published in The Alabama…
UPDATED WITH PODCAST – Gunpowder explodes in warehouse at Mobile and destroys half the town. [pictures & list of wounded soldiers]
…it has been estimated at possibly 300 1Highlights of 75 years in Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, First National Bank of Mobile, 1940, pages 6 and 7 2Highlights of 75 years in…
PATRON + Dr. Palmer’s notes (1883-1884) about Alabama – Barbour County, Clarke County & Mobile
…Tombigbee River the negro first class passengers eat in the cabin after others. Females sleep aft of Ladies Cabin—Males in Texas. Feb. 10 left Coffeeville for Mobile. Mobile Ala. National…
Thanks to Joe Cain, on February 13, 1866 Mardi Gras in Mobile continued formal festivities
…Day is observed annually in Mobile on the Sunday before Mardi Gras. Are you looking for a great place to stay for the Mardis Gras in Mobile, Alabama? Check out…
Mobile, Alabama And Louisiana Territory Almost Became An Independent Republic
Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of the first Mardi Gras in America. [See the story: Have you ever heard of Massacre Island in Mobile, Alabama?] In January until ‘Fat Tuesday’,…
The Can’t Get Away Club in Mobile, Alabama – You’ll never guess its purpose
…the organization the Mobile Register editorially says: “Mobile and other cities of the South bear in grateful remembrance the name of the organization, which, as suggested by Mr. Godfrey Mertz…
PATRON + Immigrant introduces Japanese camellias from wife’s dowry to Mobile in 1917
…author in 1939. This is his unedited interview from 1939. KOSAKU SAWADA, NURSERYMAN Mobile, Alabama Written Jan. 20, 1939 by Ila B. Prine WPA Federal Writers’ Project Mobile, Alabama On…
PATRON – Mobile County March 1840- Slaves listed as runaways in jail
( Transcribed from Advertiser and Register, Mobile, Alabama, March 13, 1840) COMMITTED to the Jail of Marion County, on the 20th day of October 1839, a negro man slave, who…
PATRON + Dr. Palmer’s notes (1883-1884) about Alabama – Barbour County, Clarke County & Mobile
…in the cabin after others. Females sleep aft of Ladies Cabin—Males in Texas. Feb. 10 left Coffeeville for Mobile. See larger image Some Southern Descendants of HENRY GAY (1628-1688) (Kindle…
Yellow Fever killed many people in Alabama – here are the years & places of most severe epidemics
…Mobile during October. Other points not affected. 1822. Severe epidemic at Blakely. “Only four or five cases” reported at Mobile. 1824. Six deaths in Mobile, the last September 25, more…
Did you know that when the Mississippi Bubble Burst it devastated the French in Mobile, Alabama?
…in Mobile, Alabama? In 1716, John Law, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland was a celebrated financier in France. He had established a bank in France in 1716 by the authority…
PATRON+ THROWBACK THURSDAY: A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow on June 20, 1890 in Mobile
MATRIMONIAL MUSSES AT MOBILE A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow. (Transcribed from The Montgomery Advertiser June 21, 1890) Mr. Ulmer and Mrs. Hill Leave for New Orleans, Where…
PATRON – A death and fight took place at the Battle House, in Mobile, Alabama in 1856
…FOR THE DISTRICTS ALEXANDER B. MEEK, of Mobile JAMES L. PUGH, of Barbour EDWARD J. BACON, of Chambers JOHN G. BARR, of Tuscaloosa JOHN D. RATHER, of Morgan BENJAMIN C….
PATRON + The Fiddling Fisherman’s life in Mobile
Written November 4, 1938 by Ila B. Prine WPA Federal Writers’ Project Mobile, Alabama A STORY OF A FISHERMANS LIFE Standing under a china berry tree near the edge of…
PATRON+ A historic hospital in Mobile – abandoned
Recently, there has been talk of restoring and reopening Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon, Alabama as a mental health facility in Mobile County. Searcy Hospital served as a mental health…
Patron – On April 2, 1874 news of Mr. Lee Fearn Irwin, who established the initial cotton factory in Mobile.
…cord made at the new cotton factory of Mr. Lee Fearn Irwin, who has established the initial cotton factory in Mobile. (Mobile Graphic) The Mobile Register will henceforth be published…
Biography: John Gallagher (ca. 1796 -1839) Lawrence & Mobile Counties
…1873 and her husband preceded her in death. John and Caroline Gallagher moved to Mobile, Alabama where John became and officer in a bank. He died in Mobile, Alabama Jan….
PATRON+ The oldest surveying monument in the SE is in Mobile County
ELLICOTT’S STONE There is a historical marker East of Hwy 43 and south of Bucks, Alabama in Mobile County that is the “oldest historical surveying monument in the southeast,” according…