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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBN_creole-firehouse-1_Mobile-AL.html
This two-story brick structure was built in 1869 with James H. Hutchinsson as architect to house the first volunteer fire company in Mobile. The company was founded in 1819. As descendants of the French, Spanish and Africans, the Creoles formed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBM_dr-h-roger-williams_Mobile-AL.html
Dr. Williams opened one of the early African-American drugstores- Live and Let Live on this site in 1901. Born on a sugar plantation in Louisiana, he graduated from Meharry Medical School in 1900 and was the second black physician to practice medi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBL_dr-thomas-n-harris_Mobile-AL.html
Dr. Harris, born April 6, 1868, in Montgomery, Alabama was one of the earliest black physicians to practice medicine in Mobile. He graduated in 1899 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee with dual degrees in dentistry and medicine. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBJ_mobile-city-hospital_Mobile-AL.html
Built in 1830 by Thomas S. James, Mobile's third hospital has been preserved in its original design except for additions at each end, serving without interruption through disastrous fires, yellow fever epidemics, and war. For 83 years between 1861…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MB1_on-this-spot-woodrow-wilson-said_Mobile-AL.html
"I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has and s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MAW_400-government-street-1860_Mobile-AL.html
Antebellum town mansion
of W. H. Ketchum.
Commandeered as Headquarters of Union Army by General E. R. S. Canby, who occupied Mobile on April 12, 1865.
Since 1906 used as Cathedral Rectory and home of the Bishop of Mobile.
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…