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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...
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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...
The Ghost of Zundel’s Wharf
A typical Point Clear morning in October finds light, cool east breezes filtering through the pine trees, brushing Mobile Bay into a glassy...
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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...
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“Mobile’s Finest Department Store” thrived in a building that previously housed the largest laundry and dye...
Integration Remembered
On June 11, 1963, the eyes of the nation watched, through the black and white lenses of news cameras, as...
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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...
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In 1838, following a series of yellow fever epidemics, a Catholic orphan’s asylum was established in Mobile on Conti Street across from...
The Battle of Mobile Bay Revisited
Every Old Mobile family worth its salt will claim a blockade runner somewhere in the family tree. Heaven knows plenty of daring men attempted to run...
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In September 1979, Mobile was hit with Hurricane Frederic, its costliest storm to date. Thousands of trees fell, knocking down power lines....