Tag: History
Timber!
Mobile’s position as a port city was millions of years in the making: layers of the Earth’s crust pressed and folded against one another,...
Ask McGehee
Yes, a lynching took place on the southeast corner of Church and St. Emanuel streets (when those two streets used to intersect) in...
Dirty Jobs
First and foremost in my memory of horrible tasks was cleaning out the grease trap. I didn’t get suspicious of this particular responsibility until I...
Ask McGehee
For several years during the 1950s, the reigning Miss America would come to Mobile to open the city’s popular Azalea Trail. Perhaps the...
A Brief History of the Shotgun House
Learn more about the history of the shotgun house and the new generation taking aim at repurposing them for a multitude of uses.
The Azalea City
To understand Mobile, it’s important to understand the azalea.
Into the Wild: Part II
Read Part I of "Into the Wild" IÂ was determined to spend two weeks in the Alabama River bottom swamp with little more than...
Ask McGehee
  ABOVE LEFT Amelia Townsend McTyeire was a Mobile native whose husband, Holland McTyeire, a former minister at St. Francis Street...
Mobile Ironwork
In 1864, in response to protests from the Mobile Daily Register for better illumination Downtown, the City of Mobile erected more than...
Ordering the Myths and Facts
Organized into three brief parts to make it accessible even for those who don’t normally like reading histories, Ann Pond’s new books cover the...
