Tom McGehee
Ask McGehee: “Dixey” Shipwreck
“Dixey” is the correct spelling. It comes from an ill-fated clipper ship, the Robert H. Dixey, which was launched from Boston...
Ask McGehee: Historic Marker at the southeast corner of Government and Warren streets
From 1907 until 1952, Alabama’s oldest Jewish congregation worshipped in a temple located at the southeast corner of Government and Warren streets. However,...
Ask McGehee: Magnolia Manor
In June 1931, the homeowner, local defense attorney Foster Kirksey Hale Jr., was gunned down by his former mistress in his...
Ask McGehee: 1116 Government St.
Coca-Cola bottler Walter Bellingrath had the structure built, but it was never part of his gardens on Fowl River.Bellingrath and his wife, ...
Ask McGehee: Silver Collection at Museum of Mobile
Col. Edward Lafayette Russell came to Mobile in 1875 as a legal representative for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was in bankruptcy....
Ask McGehee: What is the story behind Tuthill Lane in Spring Hill?
Tuthill Lane earned its name from George Augustus Tuthill who paid $500 for a 5-acre lot on the northwest corner of Old Shell Road in 1849.
