Tag: History
The History of Yellow Fever in Mobile
An airtight coffin is the ominous symbol of a city paralyzed by a fearsome disease.
The Wreck of the Saint-Antoine
An 18th-century maritime mishap provoked a tense Franco-Spanish standoff over who controlled Mobile Bay.
Ask McGehee: Was Mobile’s electric plant once destroyed by an explosion?
Local historian Tom McGehee gives the full story behind the explosion that took place at Mobile Electric Lighting Company in February 1919.
Ask McGehee
What is Mobile’s beer brewing history?
Ask McGehee
How long has downtown Mobile had parking meters?
Young Oyster Tongers, 1911
A supposed 14-year-old digs for oysters in the Bay.
A Mobile Classic Turns 70
“Remember Mobile” — a romantic, affectionate look at our past in prose and drawings — is a book still worth remembering.
Ask McGehee
What’s the history of the building on Broad Street that once housed the Red Cross?
Mobile’s Borrowing Habit
Writer Frances Beverly recounts some of the most egregious borrowers of 19th-century Mobile.
The President is on the Line
Jack Edwards, representative for Alabama’s First Congressional District from 1965 to 1985, relates two stories that bookend his political career.