The Largest and Most Commodious Bay
A 1558 Spanish voyage yields one of the oldest descriptions of Mobile Bay.
Ask McGehee
Is it true that Walt Disney visited Mobile to consider it a possible site for Disney World?
A Presidential Breakfast
Artifacts at the History Museum of Mobile recall President Woodrow Wilson’s morning meal at the Battle House Hotel in 1913.
Ask McGehee
What’s the history of the old Providence Hospital being demolished on Spring Hill Avenue?
Gumbo: Africans and Creoles on the Gulf Coast
Local author Emily Blejwas boils down the history of Creoles in Mobile.
Mystic Restoration
A partnership between the 1857 Foundation and a local, prominent mystic society allowed for the full restoration of one of downtown Mobile’s beloved architectural old dames.
The Slave Who Went to Congress
Mobile author Frye Gaillard coauthors a children’s book about a little-known story in Alabama history.
Bay Shell Road, c. 1900
Mobile’s second shell-paved route, Bay Shell Road, once had a reputation for being the “most famous of all Alabama driveways,” according to a 1912...