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Mobile Ironwork
In 1864, in response to protests from the Mobile Daily Register for better illumination Downtown, the City of Mobile erected more than...
Mobile Bay's Top 15 Stories of 2015
Photo by Kathy Hicks "Guiding Light, " January 2015 One of the area’s brightest beacons, Middle Bay Lighthouse, is...
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Mobile Bay's Top 14 Stories of 2014
"The Sixties, " January 2014 Let’s look back to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Follow us on a sentimental journey through the decade of...
A Kid's Life
There’s something about our little corner of the world that creates a magical childhood unlike anywhere else. It is a glistening estuary where...
Snippets from Southern Pages
From the Foreword by Walter Edgar And it is Sledge’s love of books, his passion for the written word, that...
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Port City Street Cred
Mobile’s colorful history can be read in its street names. But these beloved and distinctive monikers, some going back three centuries, often lead to confusion....
Mobile Remembers
Judy Culbreth Editorial Consultant, Mobile Bay Magazine "On September 11, 2001, I was working at Scholastic, Inc., ...
The Madness of Don Tristán
In the summer of 1560, a broken conquistador led his starving followers downriver to Mobile Bay.
The Wreck of Kate Feore
How an unexpected hurricane led to the demise of an ill-fated Mobile schooner.
Cabeza de Vaca, Don Teodoro and the Unnamed Black Man at Mobile Bay
A desperate Spanish expedition drifted into Mobile Bay, and two men who went ashore for water vanished without a trace.