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PATRON + Does this home in historic Oakdale, Mobile, Alabama still exist?
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Accidental Poisoning in Mobile, Alabama
This sad story has been transcribed from Greenville Advocate (Greenville, Alabama May 2, 1867 Accidental Poisoning A very unfortunate case of sudden death from accidental poisoning occurred yesterday and there is considerable portion of the city into a state of excitement. Mrs. Adelia F. Van Hagens, the lady who has fallen a victim to this […]
Gen. LaFayette letters- Mobile prepared for his visit which included local Freemasons
Once Gen. LaFayette agreed to the invitation of Governor Israel Pickens to visit Alabama, Gov. Pickens began to make preparations for his visit. The city of Mobile began consulting with Gov. Pickens almost immediately about their plans which included visits to Freemason lodges. (Gen. LaFayette was a Freemason) Sir At your request I have selected the […]
PATRON + An unusual kidnapping in Mobile in 1835 of Dr. Gannard’s child
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PATRON – The story of rain in Mobile, Alabama
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PATRON – Sheriff’s Sale of Real Estate in Mobile, Alabama March 13, 1840
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PATRON + No other place in the United States has street names like those in the city of Mobile, Alabama
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PATRON + Mobile Deer survives the War Between the States
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PATRON + Marquis de Lafayette said Mobile, Alabama girl was prettiest in the United States
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PATRON + This 1942 video reveals how three cities worked to solve problems created by WWII includes the city of Mobile
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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS Ice once came down to Mobile, Alabama all the way from Kennebec, Maine
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PATRON + Azaleas in Mobile, older than the state [photographs and video]
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PATRON + Do you know how the drop-off on Conception Street occurred in Mobile, Alabama
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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 celebration has been recognized by O, The Oprah Winfrey magazine and Garden and Gun magazine, TODAY, Good Morning America and others as one of the […]
PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – A Breezy Elopement and a Hilarious Grass Widow on June 20, 1890 in Mobile
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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 facility from 1900 to 2012, when it was abandoned, but the area has a longer history than that. More than 30 historic buildings in Mount […]
PATRON + The oldest surveying monument in the SE is in Mobile County
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PATRON – On April 2, 1874 news of Mr. Lee Fearn Irwin, who established the initial cotton factory in Mobile.
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PATRON + Fort Charlotte at Mobile was still garrisoned with Spanish troops as late as 1792
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PATRON + Marine Hospital of Mobile
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Amazing letter from 1854 reporting on the Yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama
[This historical letter tells the story of the yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama in 1853 as they tried to determine how it started. William Crawford Gorgas, a native of Alabama, later help conquer the disease throughout the world ] YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC IN MOBILE, ALABAMA AREA IN 1853 COMMUNICATION FROM J. C. NOTT, M. […]
Mobile, Alabama, a colony of France, Britain and Spain – this {film and old photographs} reveals its mixed heritage
First Capital of Colonial French Louisiana “On January 20, 1702, French colonists, led by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, establish Fort Louis de la Mobile on a bluff twenty-seven miles up the Mobile River from Mobile Bay. The settlement, soon known simply as “Mobile,” moved to its permanent site at the mouth of the Mobile River in 1711. It served […]
Amazing 1936 interview with former slave Charlie Aarons, Oak Grove, Mobile, Alabama
Narrative of Former Slave Charlie Aarons, Oak Grove, Mobile, Alabama. Written August 6, 1937 (Born in Slavery, Library of Congress) This is the copy of the original typewritten report. RIBBON OF LOVE: 2nd edition – A Novel of Colonial America New 2nd edition – edited and revised in 2015 – Inspired by actual people and historical […]
TOWNS IN THE ALABAMA TERRITORY – Mobile described in an article published in 1817!
(The following story is the first section of a news article written in 1817 which is descriptive of Mobile, Blakeley, St. Stephens and Jackson, in 1817. It was published in 1817 when Alabama was still a Territory and first printed in the New York Herald, then copied in the Alabama Republican, and finally published in […]
Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 –
THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. SEE ALL BOOKS BY DONNA R CAUSEY Living in a little world of their own, set apart from the rest of the […]
PATRON – News gathered from Selma, Rome, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Birmingham News –October 20, 1883
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This is a Story written in 1922 about a battery of men from Montgomery in the War Between the States
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Weather has been a destructive force in Alabama over the years – See stories and pictures
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Deaths, Theft, Estates and Ferry from the Blakeley Sun, Blakely Alabama 1819
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