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In 1904, Annie Louise Waterman (whose husband would later found Waterman Steamship Co.) met with a group of local boys to discuss the...
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According to a 1908 account in the Mobile Register, Mr. Fernand S. Frederic was erecting “a 3-story dye house and cleaning establishment” at...
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The bold, black headline of the April 29, 1951, edition of the Mobile Register exclaimed, “Robert Vogeler, Cold War...
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In 1914, Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. The idea for such a day stretched back to 1868 when...
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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...
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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...
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ABOVE LEFT Amelia Townsend McTyeire was a Mobile native whose husband, Holland McTyeire, a former minister at St. Francis Street...
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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...
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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...
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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...