Tag: Ask McGehee
Ten Years Gone
The embossed leather and brass fire helmet, above, similar in design to those worn by many fire fighters, belonged to a...
A Doggone Good Time
I realized a few weeks ago that my dog no longer sports the trim figure I remembered from his youth. The Red Dog used...
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...
Old Iron
For the agriculturally inclined, there must be something almost tender and seductive about restoring antique tractors. It has to be better than my...
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.