French Plantation Life on the Mobile River
Throughout the Port City’s long colonial century (1702 - 1813), there were plantations all around the Bay area. These were not like...
Big Stage, Big Names
The Civic Center Arena, originally named Municipal Auditorium, has hosted some of the most legendary musicians and groups in the nation....
The Mississippian Period
Long before Europeans first trod these shores, Native Americans were here. In the beginning, they were simple hunter-gatherers, subsisting on...
An Independent Woman
For all the delights of my first trip to New York City in 1964, the summer I turned 11, none was...
Ask McGehee: What’s the history of The Antoinette Apartments on Government Street?
In August of 1911, Mobile’s Register reported “work commenced last week on dismantling of the Government Street home which was occupied by...
Ask McGehee: Has Mobile ever had a white Christmas?
Although snow along the Gulf Coast is a bit of a phenomenon, it does occur, but unfortunately seldom in December. There have been...
The Canoe Fight
This month marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most storied incidents in Alabama history, the Canoe Fight. It took place...
Ask McGehee
The Chinese filling station, which stood on the northwest corner of Government and Dearborn streets, was the creation of architect C....
The White Car
it wasn’t until we were standing in a dark, rutted-out, dirt parking lot at the edge of the Tensaw River that...
Ask McGehee: What is the history of Catholic Cemetery out in Toulminville?
Mobile’s original Catholic Cemetery or “Campo Santo” (Sacred Ground) was in the area now called Cathedral Square, a space stretching west from...