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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23ME_the-mitchell-home_Mobile-AL.html
Built for Judge John Bragg in 1855; Thomas James, supervising architect. After 1880 owned by Pratt, Upham and Frank Davis families. Acquired 1925 by A.S. Mitchells who restored house and lived here forty years.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XFZ_william-bartram-trail-historical_Grand-Bay-AL.html
In 1775, William Bartram, Colonial naturalist, visited Mobile and environs recording flora, fauna, land areas, and rivers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WNW_the-comic-cowboys-of-mobile-historical_Mobile-AL.html
This marker commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the founding in Mobile of the Comic Cowboys, a Mardi Gras society believed to be unique in all the world. For a century, it has annually fulfilled its mission by using the art of caricature…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WK9_tank-m48a1-historical_Mobile-AL.html
Armament
1 - 90mm Gun
2 - .50 Cal. Machine Guns
1 - .30 Cal. Machine Gun
Weight 99,000 lbs. Combat Loaded
Crew 4 Men
Maximum Speed 28 mph
Cruising Range 70 Miles
Grade Ascending Ability 60 Percent
Fording Depth of Water …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WHS_mobiles-first-mardi-gras-parade-historical_Mobile-AL.html
On Shrove Tuesday, February 25, 1868, the Order of Myths gathered at this intersection shortly after 8 p.m. and began its first parade. The procession traveled west on Government, north on Warren east on Dauphin, north on Joachim west on State, so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WBY_the-story-of-bellingrath-gardens-historical_Theodore-AL.html
(plaque 1)
The site of the famed gardens was originally a semi-tropical jungle on the Isle-Aux-Coirs River.
In 1917 the property was acquired for a private fishing lodge by Walter and Bessie Morse Bellingrath... The primeval beauty of the land a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8M_gen-william-c-gorgas-historical_Mobile-AL.html
On this site stood the Gov. John Gayle home, birthplace of William Crawford Gorgas, world famous sanitarian, Panama Canal Zone, 1902-14; Surgeon Gen. & Maj. General; conqueror of dread plagues of yellow fever and malaria.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U6M_semmes-heritage-park-historical_Semmes-AL.html
A place to experience the
history of Semmes
Home of the original
1902 Semmes School
Alabama's oldest
continuous-in-use School
Alabama Register of
Historical Landmarks 1994
Land donated by
Thomas Jefferson Howell
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZ7_city-hall_Mobile-AL.html
Southern market buildings & municipal
offices also served as military armory
before and during the Civil war
Stalls for farmers, butchers, game
sellers and fishermen on ground floor
Officially registered in 1969 in
National Register of Histo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZ6_damn-the-torpedoes-the-campaigns-for-mobile-1864-1865_Mobile-AL.html
(preface)
"Damn the Torpedoes!" is a familiar battle cry, but there's more to the story! The Mobile Civil War Trail is your guide to military movements and the way of life on and around Mobile Bay in the closing two years of the Civil War. Stand …