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By Mark Hilton, July 26, 2015
Mobile City Limits Marker
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1 Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — Mobile City Limits — 1711 —
When Mobile was laid out, this was the city's north-east boundary point. Royal Street ran along a bluff overlooking the Mobile River. There were no streets between Royal and the river, only marshland.Map (db m86347) HM
2 Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — Mobile City Limits — 1711 —
At this point the northwest limits of French Mobile faded into the dense forest which surrounded the city in 1711 and many years thereafter. An 1815 map shows the forest reaching Joachim Street, one block west.Map (db m86348) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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