Tag: History
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.
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What is Mobile’s beer brewing history?
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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.
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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.
Explore the History of Clay City Tile
The orange-red tiles stand out on structures across Baldwin County. Their history is just as colorful.
Special Delivery, 1919
Hammel’s airborne shipping strategy