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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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M8U_mobile-city-limits_Mobile-AL.html
At this point the northwest limits of French Mobile faded into the dense forest which surrounded the city in 1711 and many years thereafter. An 1815 map shows the forest reaching Joachim Street, one block west.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M8R_site-of-sixth-mobile-theatre_Mobile-AL.html
Here played the great of the American and British stage, among them: James Wallack, Fanny Kemble, Ole Bull, Joseph Field, Joseph Jefferson, James H. Hackett, William Macready, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, Julia Dean, Junius Booth, Anna Mowatt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M85_old-slave-markets_Mobile-AL.html
On This Site Stood One Of The Old
Slave Markets
Last cargo of slaves arrived
on the Schooner Clotilde
in August of 1859.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M84_the-slave-market_Mobile-AL.html
After the abolition of international slave trading in 1808, dealers transported slaves from all over the South into Mobile. On this site, Africans were sold as chattel to southern planters through public auction. Between auctions, a three-story ho…