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By Mark Hilton, July 26, 2015
Mobile City Limits Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On North Royal Street at St Michael Street, on the right when traveling north on North Royal Street. |
| | 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 |
| On North Conception Street, 0.1 miles north of St Michael Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 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 |
May. 4, 2024