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…
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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+ Gen. LaFayette letters- Mobile prepared for his visit which included local Freemasons
…a Copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting towit. Masonic Hall, City of Mobile, March 16th AD 1825 7 o’clock P.M. “Resolved by the Companions of Mobile Chapter No….
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…
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…
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’,…
Patron+ The Can’t Get Away Club in Mobile, Alabama – You’ll never guess its purpose
the work of 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…
Here is a unique way to see in the New Year if you live around Mobile, Alabama
Mobile’s MoonPie drop was listed as one of seven weird items that will drop on New Year’s Eve in the Los Angeles Times of December 31, 2013. “Mobile’s New Year’s…
Patron+ Yellow Fever killed many people in Alabama – here are the years & places of most severe epidemics
…Blakely. “Only four or five cases” reported at Mobile. 1824. Six deaths in Mobile, the last September 25, more than a month before frost. 1825. Severe epidemic at Mobile. The…
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+ 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 – 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
JOHN GALLAGHER BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY (ca. 1796- 1839) Lawrence and Mobile Counties, Alabama John Gallagher, an Irishman, lived in Moulton, Lawrence Co., Alabama as a merchant but was unsuccessful in…
Patron – News gathered from Selma, Rome, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Birmingham News –October 20, 1883
Patron member story – Click http://www.alabamapioneers.com/did-you-know-we-now-have-an…/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. News gathered from Selma, Rome, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Birmingham News –October…
Patron+ Did you know the Revolutionary War was fought in Alabama?
…de la Mobile at 27 Mile Bluff upriver (27 miles [43 km] from the mouth). After the Mobile River flooded and damaged the fort, Mobile was relocated in 1711 to…
Patron – Convicts of Alabama – State Penitentiary November 1846
…bricklayer Mass Mobile Matthews, Henry 8 27 boat hand England Mobile Mays, Daniel 4 44 Farmer Nc Perry McDermott, Charles 15 27 boat hand Ireland Mobile McNamara, Andrew 3 35…
PATRON + A gift from Japan created a whole new industry in Alabama in 1878.
Dawes; J. B. ODrtch, Mobile; A. H. Daves, Irvington; Mrs. Helen I. Dennis, Mobile; C. K. Funk, Cmunchula; W. H. Fitzpatrick, Mobile; G. B. Green, Irvington; Heyman Gabriel, Mobile; W….
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part XI
professional service, Dr. Ketchum was president of the Mobile Medical Society several times, president of the Mobile Board of Health, and was primarily responsible for the City of Mobile having…
PATRON+ The Alabama Territory Through An 1819 Visitor’s Eyes
…They then lose their names, and branch off into the Tensaw, and Mobile, both of which are noble rivers, emptying into Mobile Bay one at Mobile, the other about six…
Biography: William Anthony Alexander born Dec. 21, 1837
(b. Aug. 10, 1840, Mobile, AL – d. Mar 25, 1918, Mobile, AL) of Mobile. According to her Alabama Death Record, she was the widow of William Alexander, age 77y,…
The great city Josiah Blakeley envisioned, prospered for awhile but is now a ghost town in Alabama
town of Mobile. The river Mobile disembogues its waters into the bay by several mouths. From Mobile to the high land on the eastern shore is three leagues, in which…
Biographies of the Delegates to the Alabama Secession Convention Part IX
…Mobile family dates back to Baron Franz von Krebs, who left his Castle Cachem on the Moselle River, to live in Mobile. When Baron Krebs came to Mobile he married…
Baldwin County, Alabama celebrated 200 years – and opened the courthouse cornerstone – see what was in it.
…Rivers was added to Mobile County; that part lying in the Fork of the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers was added to Monroe, and that part of Mobile County east of…
Patron+ Some Early Towns In The Territory of Alabama
…a thank you to our Patrons who keep stories on the AP website FREE. Click http://www.alabamapioneers.com/did-you-know-we-now-have-an…/ to see how to Become a Patron and unlock this story now. Mobile, Mobile…
Did you know that Mardi Gras started on Massacre Island?
…was the first white settlement in Alabama The first white settlement in Alabama occurred in 1702 at Fort Louis De la Mobile near the city of Mobile. Though De Soto…
Patron+ Many Native American Mounds in Counties in Alabama found in 1901
…Mobile, (1897), p. 71.) These are different from most others in being largely of clam shells. They have been much drawn on for paving purposes in Mobile, and many of…
PATRON – October 1915 – news in Grand Bay of a stranger’s death, severe insect bites, a family devastated by fever, and more. . .
…to Mobile where they will attend Barton Academy this session. Mrs. George Clinton of Mobile was down last week to attend the meeting of the Knights and Ladies of Security….
Patron+ Indian Trails and Early Roads in Alabama – story written in 1900
…from Mobile to Youane, and the neighboring village of Chickasahay. Bartram in 1778 found no real “highways” between the Ocmulgee and Mobile, but that from Mobile to the Choctaws became…