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By Mark Hilton, July 26, 2015
View from marker looking west on Government Street.
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1 Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile — Mobile City Limits — 1711 —
This site marks the southwestern limit of the city of Mobile in 1711. Known then as Fort Louis de la Mobile, it had been founded by the French at 27-Mile Bluff in 1702 and moved to its present site in 1711. Mobile has been a city under six . . . Map (db m131883) HM
2 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
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Aug. 27, 2026