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 m193903) HM
On North Royal Street at North Francis Street, on the right when traveling north on North Royal Street.
Joseph Stillwell Cain has become known as the patron saint of Mardi Gras in Mobile, credited with reviving Mardi Gras after the Civil War.
He was the clerk of the Southern Market, a longtime volunteer with Washington Fire Company No. 8, and a . . . — — Map (db m234672) HM
On Michigan Avenue at Eagle Drive, on the right when traveling south on Michigan Avenue.
Built in 1942 and named for an early Mobile architect, Thomas
James Place provided homes within close proximity to Brookley
Airfield for defense workers and their families. It was one of
approximately twenty-five local federal housing facilities . . . — — Map (db m226736) HM
Near Old Shell Road (County Road 70) east of Cosgrove Drive, on the right when traveling east.
The earliest known graves are those of John
and Elizabeth Miller, the children of Francis
William Miller who emigrated from Sweden and
Jane Thompson who emigrated from Ireland.
Miller family descendants settled the area
between Spring Hill and . . . — — Map (db m226740) HM
New Hope Gardens, also known as Wheelerville
Cemetery is located in an unincorporated area of
Mobile County known as Wheelerville and named
for Simeon Wheeler, an early settler of the area
from South Carolina buried here in 1874. The
first . . . — — Map (db m226737) HM
On Old Military Road East (Alabama Route 96) 0.1 miles north of Old Military Road South, on the right when traveling north.
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 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.
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) 0.6 miles south of Snow Road North, on the right when traveling south.
Owen and Vivian Welch Blackwell founded Blackwell Nurseries, Inc.
in 1938, and by the late 1960s the nursery became known as the
largest azalea producer in the nation which helped earn the
reputation of Semmes as the "Nursery Capital of the . . . — — Map (db m226738) 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, 0.2 miles south of Moffett Road (U.S. 98), on the left when traveling south.
Semmes First Baptist Church is the oldest church on record in this area. Originally named Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. W.P.H. Judd and D.S. Myers organized the congregation in 1872 in a small log cabin, not far from the present site. Reverend Elias . . . — — Map (db m232094) 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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