Tag: Heritage
The Waterman Globe: Mobile's Transient Landmark
John B. Waterman, C.W. Hempstead, and Walter Bellingrath organized the Waterman Steamship Corporation in 1919 in response to the city’s poor port facilities during World War I....
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 own fantasies about my first...
Blackberry Farm Sampler
Blackberry Farm, an inn located on 9, 000 acres tucked away in the Great Smoky Mountains, offers an extraordinary landscape of rolling hills, heirloom gardens and...
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The Family Business
CorteLoyal to the LandFred Corte keeps busy farming these days, despite saying once that he had plans to retire. The Corte family legacy spurs this Baldwin County man...
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, Bessie, bought a 10-room...
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. Within eight years of his...
An Ode to Oysters
Long before French vessels plied the waters of Mobile Bay, Native Americans pulled millions of oysters from its clear waters. When European explorers arrived, they found enormous...
Architectural Timeline
To travel from the Mobile River west through our fair city is to experience an architectural timeline, featuring the succeeding periods and moods of Gulf Coast domestic building...
