Tom McGehee
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Yes, a lynching took place on the southeast corner of Church and St. Emanuel streets (when those two streets used to intersect) in the early morning hours of January...
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For several years during the 1950s, the reigning Miss America would come to Mobile to open the city’s popular Azalea Trail. Perhaps the most memorable year was 1956,...
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ABOVE LEFT Amelia Townsend McTyeire was a Mobile native whose husband, Holland McTyeire, a former minister at St. Francis Street Methodist Church, was a...
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This eight-story building with a penthouse was apparently constructed in 1958. The 1957 city directory indicates that there were three houses on the south side of Government Street just west...
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That church did lose the top of its steeple, but it was the 1916 hurricane that gets credit for the damage. A cross studded with electric light bulbs...
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Although converted to a recirculating fountain in 1967, this Downtown fixture was originally designed to be a trough, providing water to passing humans, horses and dogs....
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Since one fall day in 1973, Alabama’s only coastal lighthouse has stood forlornly alone on Sand Island. The first lighthouse here was originally built in 1838 to mark...
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Construction of the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion began in 1855, but it was not built by the famed general. It was actually erected by his brother, Judge John Bragg....
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“Mobile’s Finest Department Store” thrived in a building that previously housed the largest laundry and dye works in the nation. It...
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Eugenia Levy Phillips, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, came to Mobile as a 16-year-old newlywed in 1836. She had married fellow South Carolinian Philip Phillips,...
