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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Mobile County, Alabama
Adjacent to Mobile County, Alabama
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| On Government Street (U.S. 90) at South Scott Street, on the right when traveling east on Government Street. |
| | Established 1819 by city of Mobile for yellow fever victims. Buried in raised tombs are Spanish and French citizens of early Mobile, and many pioneer Americans. — — Map (db m86409) HM |
| On Bay Bridge Cutoff Road 0.1 miles north of Chin Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | The Old Plateau Cemetery, known as the Africatown Graveyard, is the final resting place of enslaved Africans, African-Americans, and a Buffalo Soldier. The burial ground dates back to 1876, sixteen years after Africans arrived on the Clotilda . . . — — Map (db m86308) HM |
| On St Louis Street at North Royal Street, on the right when traveling west on St Louis Street. |
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On This Site Stood One Of The Old
Slave Markets
Last cargo of slaves arrived
on the Schooner Clotilde
in August of 1859. — — Map (db m86311) HM |
| Near Church Street east of South Conception Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Oldest Episcopal Church in the State 1823 • 1976 Placed by The Alabama Society Daughters of the American Revolution — — Map (db m143480) HM |
| On Conti Street at South Joachim Street, on the left when traveling west on Conti Street. |
| | "I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has and she . . . — — Map (db m86381) HM |
| On Government Street (U.S. 90) east of South Hamilton Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Spain came first to our shores in 1519, and her maps gave first to the world knowledge of our lands — Piñeda, De Soto, and then Gálvez. Returning in 1780, she conquered, and wise and benign, ruled for thirty-three years this city, whose . . . — — Map (db m149975) HM |
| On St Francis Street at North Conception Street, on the right when traveling east on St Francis Street. |
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A la gloire de
Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville,
le heros dela baie d'Hudson,
de Terre-Neuve et de Nevis,
qui fonda en 1702
Mobile
premiere ville de la Louisiane Française.
————
Ne a Montréal en . . . — — Map (db m86490) HM |
| On Conti Street at West Claiborne Street, on the left when traveling west on Conti Street. |
| | Title to this land, part of a Spanish grant and formerly a burial ground, was clarified by the American State Papers in 1828. Michael Portier, Mobile's first Bishop, made this his home from 1834 until his death in 1859. Four subsequent bishops of . . . — — Map (db m86344) HM |
| On Dauphin Street 0.1 miles east of Common Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This building was erected in 1845 by the Protestant Orphans Asylum Society, to care for children left homeless after the disastrous fires and yellow fever epidemics of the 1830s. It has operated continuously since that time. — — Map (db m111293) HM |
| On North Joachim Street 0.1 miles south of Congress Street. |
| | One of the premier antebellum structures in the city, the house was built by Charles Richards, a riverboat captain originally from Maine. The building is considered to have Mobile's finest cast iron, featuring figures in a garden setting and . . . — — Map (db m86511) HM |
| On South Joachim Street 0.1 miles south of Dauphin Street, on the right. |
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Opening night, January 19, 1927, saw crowds gather to hear local dignitaries praise Mobile's "Place of Entertainment". Today the Saenger Theatre remains the entertainment center of downtown. Designed by Emile Weil in the French Renaissance . . . — — Map (db m86503) HM |
| On Church Street west of South Royal Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This ruin is a vestige of the second Fort Conde. Built by the French in 1723 and later occupied by the British, Spanish, and the Americans, these foundations are the only architectural remains of Colonial Mobile. — — Map (db m117253) HM |
| On Government Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Jews have been part of Alabama’s economic, social and political life since 1764. It was not until 1841 that Mobile’s small Jewish community grew large enough to organize “Congregation” Shaarai Shomayim (Gates of Heaven). The community . . . — — Map (db m27083) HM |
| On Theatre Street at South Royal Street, on the right when traveling west on Theatre Street. |
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Erected in 1824 N. M. Ludlow
whence Theater Street
derives its name — — Map (db m86437) HM |
| On North Royal Street at St Michael Street, on the right when traveling south on North Royal Street. |
| | Here played the great of the American and British stage, among them: James Wallack, Fanny Kemble, Ole Bull, Joseph Field, Joseph Jefferson, James H. Hackett, William Macready, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Forrest, Julia Dean, Junius Booth, Anna Mowatt, . . . — — Map (db m86352) HM |
| On Springhill Avenue east of Silverwood Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Organized in Mobile on January 29, 1844, this Reform Jewish Congregation is the oldest in Alabama and one of the oldest in the United States. Members met in homes until December 27, 1846, when the St. Emanuel Street Temple was dedicated. The . . . — — Map (db m111291) HM |
| Near South Dearborn Street north of Canal Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | St. John’s Episcopal Church, established and built in 1855, stood at the northwest corner of this block, its rectory adjacent. Between 1860 and 1870, the Church Home, an orphanage and school consisting of three buildings, was constructed. This was . . . — — Map (db m123443) HM |
| On North Dearborn Street at St Louis Street, on the right when traveling north on North Dearborn Street. |
| | The church was organized in 1853 by ten African-Americans who were former members of Stone Street Baptist Church. It is the second oldest Missionary Baptist Church in Alabama. The first three pastors were Caucasian; however, following passage of the . . . — — Map (db m86578) HM |
| On South Washington Avenue north of Virginia Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Established in 1947 by the Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile for the black community because segregation prevented black doctors from admitting patients to the City Hospital. Present building erected in 1950 and named for St. Martin de Porres, who was . . . — — Map (db m111355) HM |
| On Tunstall Street at Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling south on Tunstall Street. |
| | Stone Street Baptist Church, Alabama's first baptist church, organized in 1806, thirteen years before Alabama became a state and thirty years after this nation was formed the Stone Street Baptist Church, also called "The African Church", was . . . — — Map (db m111395) HM |
| Near Battleship Parkway (U.S. 98) 2.3 miles west of Interstate 10. |
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Armament
1 - 90mm Gun
2 - .50 Cal. Machine Guns
1 - .30 Cal. Machine Gun
Weight 99,000 lbs. Combat Loaded
Crew 4 Men
Maximum Speed 28 mph
Cruising Range 70 Miles
Grade Ascending Ability 60 . . . — — Map (db m100938) HM |
| On Government Street (U.S. 90) at South Broad Street, on the right when traveling east on Government Street. |
| | The congregation of Government Street United Methodist Church, Methodism's Mother Church in Mobile, began in 1826 on Franklin Street. Called "The Bee Hive" because of its activity, it sent "swarms" throughout the city to form new congregations. A . . . — — Map (db m86571) HM |
| On Dauphin Street west of South Claiborne Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | (front side)
The origin of this Cathedral was established on July 20, 1703, by Jean-Baptiste de La Croix de Chevrieres de Saint Vallier, Bishop of Quebec at Fort Louis de la Mobile, the city’s first permanent settlement. The Bishop also . . . — — Map (db m117245) HM |
| Near Civic Center Drive at South Claiborne Street. |
| | This marker commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the founding in Mobile of the Comic Cowboys, a Mardi Gras society believed to be unique in all the world. For a century, it has annually fulfilled its mission by using the art of caricature, . . . — — Map (db m101082) HM |
| On Springhill Avenue at St Francis Street, on the right when traveling east on Springhill Avenue. |
| | On this site in 1884 the Sisters of Mercy established the Convent of Mercy. In 1908 the front building, the convent, was constructed and in 1927 the adjacent school building was occupied by pupils attending Convent of Mercy Academy. The school . . . — — Map (db m86584) HM |
| On Battleship Parkway, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The Fallen Guardians Monument
Dedicated to the personnel who lost their lives
while performing Coast Guard missions in Alabama
Eternal Father, Lord of Hosts, watch o’er the ones who guard our coasts, protect them from the raging seas and give . . . — — Map (db m136756) WM |
| Near Battleship Parkway (U.S. 98) 0.7 miles south of Interstate 10, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Graduates of the United States Naval Academy
who distinguished themselves in the service of our country
Their valor glorifies Alabama
It is with great civic and patriotic pride
that we dedicate this tribute — — Map (db m136755) WM |
| On North Water Street 0.1 miles north of St Anthony Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The first submarine successfully used in warfare was completed at this site in 1863. Designed by James McClintock and Baxter Watson, and financed by Horace L. Hunley, it was built by W. A. Alexander at the Mobile machine shop of Park and Lyons. . . . — — Map (db m86244) HM |
| On Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue west of Armistead Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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In the See City of the Diocese of
Mobile - Birmingham
Fifty years ago, on November 7, 1909
The Order of the Knights of Peter Claver
was founded by
Father Conrad F. Rebesher, S.S.J.
Father John H. Dorsey, S.S.J.
Father . . . — — Map (db m111479) HM |
| Near South Franklin Street south of Government Street (U.S. 90), on the left when traveling north. |
| | (2010 marker inscription) Damaged in 1979 during Hurricane Frederic, The Little Colt was basically lost to the city until 2001 when it was retrieved from a private warehouse. The Wayne D. McRae Philanthropic Fund provided funding to Main . . . — — Map (db m154239) HM |
| | President John F. Kennedy said, " A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors; the men it remembers."
It is our intention to remember and honor these men from Alabama who served their Nation in a time of . . . — — Map (db m85909) HM |
| On Springhill Avenue 0.3 miles west of Mobile Infirmary Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Built for Judge John Bragg in 1855; Thomas James, supervising architect. After 1880 owned by Pratt, Upham and Frank Davis families. Acquired 1925 by A.S. Mitchells who restored house and lived here forty years. — — Map (db m111288) HM |
| On Government Street east of South Conception Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | On March 29, 1869, 32 attorneys organized the Mobile Bar Association, the first bar association in Alabama and the 14th oldest bar association in the entire nation. They filed the Association's Declaration of Incorporation on April 12, 1869, having . . . — — Map (db m40666) HM |
| On Government Street (U.S. 90) at South Scott Street, on the right when traveling east on Government Street. |
| | Built in 1860 by George Gilmore, owned in 1866 by Dr. Edmund Pendleton Gaines, in 1901 by Mrs. Susan Quigley; this historic house was bought in 1963 by the City of Mobile and restored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. — — Map (db m86408) HM |
| On South Royal Street at Theatre Street, on the right when traveling south on South Royal Street. |
| | Spain, America's ally, declared war on Great Britain in June 1779. Bernardo de Galvez, governor of Spanish Louisiana at New Orleans, led the attack against the British along the lower Mississippi River and Gulf Coast. In February 1780, Galvez laid . . . — — Map (db m86355) HM |
| On St Francis Street at North Conception Street, on the right when traveling east on St Francis Street. |
| | At the corner of Conception and St. Francis Streets, Captain Edward Justus Parker, Staff-Captain Charles Miles and a Salvation Army lieutenant conducted an open air meeting on the night of their arrival in March 1887. In contrast to earlier . . . — — Map (db m86337) HM |
| On Monterey Place at South Catherine Street, on the right when traveling west on Monterey Place. |
| | Built in 1897 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places this Queen Anne was designed by George Franklin Barber and chosen from his catalog by the C.M. Shepard family. Major components were manufactured in Knoxville, Tennessee, and . . . — — Map (db m149317) HM |
| On North Royal Street 0.1 miles from St Anthony Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | After the abolition of international slave trading in 1808, dealers transported slaves from all over the South into Mobile. On this site, Africans were sold as chattel to southern planters through public auction. Between auctions, a three-story . . . — — Map (db m86312) HM |
| | Panel 1: "The Lookout: the Eyes of the WWII Submarine"
Panel 2: "Submarine Lookout":
Standing his watch on a perch high above the deck,
the lookout was the eyes of the submarine while
surfaced. Often while submerged he was . . . — — Map (db m74809) HM WM |
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{Side 1}
The UNESCO Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage
Launched in 1994, the international and inter-regional project ‘The Slave Route: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage’ addresses the history of the slave trade and slavery . . . — — Map (db m147638) HM |
| Near Dauphin Street at North Conception Street. |
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Native of Montreal, Canada, Naval Officer of France,
Governor of Louisiana
and Founder of the first Capital, Mobile, in 1711.
Born 1680 — Died 1768
——
With the Genius to create an Empire
and the Courage to maintain . . . — — Map (db m86732) HM |
| Near Battleship Parkway (U.S. 98) 0.7 miles south of Interstate 10, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Spanish conquistador who in the summer of 1559 led a large fleet to the northern Gulf Coast in the earliest grand attempt to colonize the area for Spain. He sailed into Mobile Bay in August 1559 with 11 ships, more than 500 soldiers, 1000 men, . . . — — Map (db m136742) HM |
| On St Anthony Street at North Bayou Street, on the right when traveling west on St Anthony Street. |
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Built 1838-1841. In Operation 1842-1952. Served Confederate and Union Troops, 1861-1865 — — Map (db m86357) HM |
| On Bay Bridge Road (Alternate U.S. 90) at Bay Bridge Cutoff Road, on the right when traveling west on Bay Bridge Road. |
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Front
Union Baptist Church
Organized in 1869 as the Old Landmark Baptist Church by Rev. Henry McCrea and the following survivors of the slave ship, Clotilda: Pollee Allen, Rose Allen, Katie Cooper, Anna Keeby, Ossa Keeby, . . . — — Map (db m86299) HM |
| Near Battleship Parkway (U.S. 90) east of Dunlap Drive. |
| | Named for the State of Alabama. 6th naval fighting ship to bear the name. Built by the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Authorized by Congress 27 March 1934. Keel laid 1 February 1940 – Launched 16 February 1942. Sponsored by . . . — — Map (db m74366) HM WM |
| On Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue at Patton Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. |
| | Vernon Crawford established the first African-American law firm in Mobile. He successfully argued the Birdie Mae Davis case that desegregated Mobile schools. He stood before the Supreme Court and won the landmark case of Bolden vs. the City of . . . — — Map (db m111319) HM |
| | From September 5 to September 9, 1950 Lt. Grady Vickery was assigned to defend the Namji-Ri Bridge crossing the Nam River. The bridge had been defended by Vickery's considerably reinforced platoon. Numerous attempts to blow the bridge by the North . . . — — Map (db m85910) HM |
| On St. Anthony Street west of North Scott Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Side 1
On May 30, 1965, Vivian Malone, became the first African-American to graduate from the University of Alabama. To achieve admission at the all-White university, she was forced to confront then Governor, George C. Wallace, in what has . . . — — Map (db m111392) HM |
| On Virginia Street at Wilkinson Street, on the right when traveling west on Virginia Street. |
| | Council Traditional School was founded and opened in 1910. It is named in honor of William Hooper Councill, a former slave who was the founder of Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama. This building was erected in 1910 and underwent . . . — — Map (db m86575) HM |
| On South Joachim Street at Government Street (U.S. 98), on the right when traveling west on South Joachim Street. |
| | In 1952, W.O. Pape, owner of the WALA-AM radio station, received a television license from the Federal Communications Commission. The WALA acronym stood for "We Are Loyal Alabamians." On January 14, 1953, WALA-TV, Channel 10, began broadcasting from . . . — — Map (db m149325) HM |
| On Conti Street at South Joachim Street, on the right when traveling west on Conti Street. |
| | In 1864, Wallace Turnage, a seventeen year old slave was owned by a merchant, Collier Minge, whose house stood on this site. Turnage escaped wartime Mobile by walking 25 miles down the western shore of Mobile Bay. After surviving three weeks in the . . . — — Map (db m86374) HM |
| On Old Military Road East (Alabama Route 96) 0.1 miles north of Old Military Road South, on the right when traveling north. |
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From 1799 to 1817, this portion of the United States fell.
within Mississippi Territory (from which the present-day states
of Mississippi and Alabama were created), and the area north
of Mobile consisted of two parts: Tombigbee District west . . . — — Map (db m149309) HM |
| On Military Road (County Road 96) at Old Highway 43, on the left when traveling east on Military Road. |
| | Site three miles east. Border fort and port of entry into the United States while the 31st parallel was the southern border. Aaron Burr was held prisoner here after capture near McIntosh in 1807. — — Map (db m70592) HM |
| On Old Military Road East (Alabama Route 96) 0.1 miles from Old Military Road South (Alabama Route 96), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Early in 1799 a joint U.S.-Spanish survey commission had
determined the international boundary to be a few miles south
of this spot, at 31° N Longitude. (A marker known as the
Ellicott Stone still stands on the old boundary line, just east of
US . . . — — Map (db m149312) HM |
| On Superintendents Drive at Coy Smith Highway (Alabama Route 96), on the right when traveling west on Superintendents Drive. |
| | The cannon in front of you, buried muzzle-down during an
1873 land survey to mark a corner of the Mount Vernon
Military Reservation, is just one of many reminders that Mount
Vernon hosted important U.S. Army posts throughout the 19th
century. . . . — — Map (db m149304) HM |
| On Old Military Road (Alabama Route 96) at State Street, on the right when traveling east on Old Military Road. |
| | In 1872 the Mobile and Alabama Grand Trunk Railroad
Company laid the first tracks to the town of Mount Vernon,
with daily service to Mobile. A year later, the company
extended their rail line north to the Tombigbee River - where a
ferryboat . . . — — Map (db m149305) HM |
| On East Coy Smith Highway (County Road 96) at Superintendents Drive, on the left when traveling west on East Coy Smith Highway. |
| | (obverse)
Mt. Vernon Arsenal and Barracks
Established 1828 by Congress to store arms and munitions for U. S. Army. Original structures completed 1830's.
Arsenal appropriated by Confederacy 1861; equipment moved to Selma . . . — — Map (db m70593) HM |
| On Old Highway 43 at Military Road (County Road 96), on the left when traveling south on Old Highway 43. |
| | In 1811, the Mount Vernon Cantonment, located on a hill about three miles west of the Mobile River, was laid out by Col. Thomas H. Cushing. The cantonment was on the site of a spring called Mount Vernon Springs. In 1814, the garrison at Mt. Vernon . . . — — Map (db m85911) HM |
| On Old Military Road 0.1 miles west of Shepard Lake Road East, on the right when traveling west. |
| | When the U.S. Army built Fort Stoddert here in 1799, one could
travel by dugout canoe and flatboat on the water or by foot and
horseback on the Indian trails that crisscrossed the landscape. There
were, however, no roads wide enough for wagons or . . . — — Map (db m149307) HM |
| On Bay Bridge Road (Alternate U.S. 90) at Bay Bridge Cutoff Road, on the right when traveling west on Bay Bridge Road. |
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Last known survivor of the last known slave ship to enter the United States
Circa 1859, Cudjoe Lewis, a native of the Yoruba tribe in what is now the West African country of Benin, was one of over a hundred African men and women . . . — — Map (db m112228) HM |
| On Moffett Road (U.S. 98) at Sun Valley Drive, on the right when traveling west on Moffett Road. |
| | This cemetery was
established in the 1800s
as a final resting place
for the Crawford
Community loved ones.
The Lord family donated
the cemetery property
Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register, April 30, 2009 . . . — — Map (db m116933) HM |
| On Moffett Road (U.S. 98) at McCray Road on Moffett Road. |
| | Incorporated in 2011. Semmes was named around 1850 in honor of Admiral/General Raphael Semmes, a hero of the South. Semmes has been called the "nursery capital of the world" and is the home of the oldest continuous-in-use school in Alabama. — — Map (db m148582) HM |
| On Wulff Road (County Route 68) at Nursery Road, on the right when traveling north on Wulff Road. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m98419) HM |
| Near Bellingrath Gardens Road (County Route 18) 1.4 miles east of Bellingrath Road (County Route 59), on the right when traveling east. |
| | (plaque 1)
The site of the famed gardens was originally a semi-tropical jungle on the Isle-Aux-Coirs River.
In 1917 the property was acquired for a private fishing lodge by Walter and Bessie Morse Bellingrath… The primeval beauty of the . . . — — Map (db m100526) |
| On West Main Street west of Mount Sinai Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Original church built in 1867 on land deeded by Jacob & Mary Magee on August 25, 1864. Present edifice and rectory built in 1874. Famous railroad engineer, Casey Jones, baptized here on November 11, 1886. — — Map (db m148902) HM |
| On Whistler Street at North Wasson Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Whistler Street. |
| | Property deeded by Bowen Masonic Lodge No. 240 on June 17, 1885 to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Church erected in 1885. Dedicated in 1886. — — Map (db m149277) HM |
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