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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MAU_barton-academy_Mobile-AL.html
Built 1835-1836. First public school in Alabama. Named for Rep. Willoughby Barton, author of Bill creating public schools of Mobile some 28 yrs. before State system. It was used as a hospital for Union soldiers in 1864.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MAB_wallace-turnage_Mobile-AL.html
In 1864, Wallace Turnage, a seventeen year old slave was owned by a merchant, Collier Minge, whose house stood on this site. Turnage escaped wartime Mobile by walking 25 miles down the western shore of Mobile Bay. After surviving three weeks in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M9R_mcgowin-lyons_Mobile-AL.html
Throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century, large warehouses and commercial buildings lined Water and Commerce Streets to service the port of Mobile. One St. Louis Centre, known locally as the McGowin-Lyons Building, was the largest an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M9Q_the-revolutionary-war-at-mobile_Mobile-AL.html
Spain, America's ally, declared war on Great Britain in June 1779. Bernardo de Galvez, governor of Spanish Louisiana at New Orleans, led the attack against the British along the lower Mississippi River and Gulf Coast. In February 1780, Galvez laid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M9L_u-s-marine-hospital_Mobile-AL.html
Built 1838-1841. In Operation 1842-1952. Served Confederate and Union Troops, 1861-1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M97_cadillac-homesite_Mobile-AL.html
Here stood the home of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, soldier of fortune under Louis XIV. Founder of Detroit, 1701; prominent person-age in Canada until 1710. He lived here during his residence in Mobile (1713-1717) as Royal Governor of Louisiana.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M93_the-salvation-army-in-mobile_Mobile-AL.html
At the corner of Conception and St. Francis Streets, Captain Edward Justus Parker, Staff-Captain Charles Miles and a Salvation Army lieutenant conducted an open air meeting on the night of their arrival in March 1887. In contrast to earlier Salvat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M92_portier-house_Mobile-AL.html
Title to this land, part of a Spanish grant and formerly a burial ground, was clarified by the American State Papers in 1828. Michael Portier, Mobile's first Bishop, made this his home from 1834 until his death in 1859. Four subsequent bishops of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M8X_mobile-city-limits_Mobile-AL.html
This site marks the southwestern limit of the city of Mobile in 1711. Known then as Port Louis de la Mobile, it had been founded by the French at 27-Mile Bluff in 1702 and moved to its present site in 1711.
Mobile has been a city under six fla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M8V_mobile-city-limits_Mobile-AL.html
When Mobile was laid out, this was the city's north-east boundary point.
Royal Street ran along a bluff overlooking the Mobile River. There were no streets between Royal and the river, only marshland.