City history timeline
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Mobile ,
Alabama , USA.
Prior to 19th century
19th century
1810 - Mobile becomes part of the independent
Republic of West Florida .
1813
Spanish
West Florida annexed to the United States.
Mobile Gazette newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated.
1819 - City of Mobile incorporated.
1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication.
1823 -
Christ Church Cathedral established.
1827 - Fire.
1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.
[6]
1830
1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.
[8]
[9]
1839
1840
St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.
[6]
Population: 12,672.
[7]
1842 -
United States Marine Hospital completed.
1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.
[11]
1845 -
Trinity Episcopal Church established.
1850
1852
1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.
[6]
1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).
[13]
1857 -
City Hall built.
1860 - Population: 29,258.
1861 - City becomes part of the
Confederate States of America .
1864
1865 - State
colored convention held in city.
[14]
1868 -
Africatown established near Mobile.
[15]
1869 - Mobile Bar Association
[6] and Mobile Law Library founded.
[8]
1871 -
Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
1872 - Mobile Carnival Association established.
[2]
1883
Fidelia Club formed.
[16]
Drago Band (musical group) active (approximate date).
[17]
1889 - Mobile County Courthouse built.
1890
Mobile Camera Club founded.
[18]
Population: 31,076.
1894 - Clara Schumann Club (music group) formed.
[6]
1900 - Population: 38,469.
20th century
1902 -
Mobile Public Library established.
1906 - (27 September) Mobile swept by a hurricane.
1907 - Union Depot built.
1910 - Population: 51,521.
1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.
[6]
1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.
[19]
1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.
[20]
1927 - Saenger Theatre built.
[20]
1928 -
Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks founded.
1929
1930 - WALA
radio begins broadcasting.
[21]
1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.
[6]
1937
1940 - Population: 78,720.
1950 - Population: 129,009.
1953
WALA-TV (
television ) begins broadcasting.
[25]
Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).
[6]
1955 - WKRG-TV (
television ) begins broadcasting.
[25]
1960
Sister city agreement established with Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
[26]
Population: 202,779.
1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.
[27]
1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).
[6]
1965 - Sister city agreement established with
Málaga , Spain.
[26]
1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.
[6]
1974
Azalea City News begins publication.
[19]
Sister city agreement established with
Pau , France.
[26]
1975 -
Springhill Medical Center (then called Springhill Memorial Hospital ) opens.
1976 - City
twins with
Worms, Germany .
[28]
1980
1982 - Sister city agreement established with
Zakynthos , Greece (approximate date).
[30]
1983 - Mobile Municipal Archives founded.
[31]
1985 - U.S.
Naval Station Mobile opens.
1987 -
Providence (hospital) built.
1988 - Sister city agreement established with
Rostov on Don , Russia.
[26]
1989
1990 - Sister city agreement established with
Katowice , Poland.
[26]
1992 - Sister city agreement established with
Košice , Slovakia.
[26]
1993
1995
1998 - Sammy’s v. City of Mobile
strip club -related lawsuit
decided .
[29]
21st century
See also
References
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"Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register" . 1 . Philadelphia. November 1839.
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"American and Western Photographic Societies" , International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin , New York:
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"Historic Theatre Inventory" . Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from
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^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939),
"Alabama" , Radio Annual , New York: Radio Daily,
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"U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary" . Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce,
International Trade Administration . Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
^ Susan Tiefenbrun (2012),
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"FTZ Activity by State, 2015: Alabama" , Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States , 2016
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i "Sister Cities: Program Links Mobile with its International Counterparts", Mobile Register , September 1, 1993
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"Mobile Genealogical Society" . Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
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"Mobile's Sister Cities" . City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
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^ "Mobile's Sister Cities", Mobile Press Register , December 19, 1982
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"Municipal Archives" . City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
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"Mayor" . City of Mobile. Archived from
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"City of Mobile Home Page" . Archived from
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"Meet the Mayors" . Washington, DC:
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^ "Sister City", Mobile Register , November 3, 2005
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"Mobile city, Alabama" . State & County QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
Jedidiah Morse ; Richard C. Morse (1823),
"Mobile" , A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
Alabama (1824),
"An Act to alter and amend the Charter of Incorporation of the City of Mobile" , Acts of Alabama
Mobile Directory , Mobile, Alabama: H.M. McGuire and T.C. Fay, 1837,
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"Mobile" , The North American Tourist , New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1839
John P. Campbell, ed. (1854).
"Alabama: Mobile" . Southern Business Directory . Charleston, SC: Press of Walker & James.
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Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion . Boston. 12 . June 27, 1857.
"Alabama River: Mobile". James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley . Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1860.
hdl :
2027/nyp.33433081817672 .
Edward H. Hall (1866),
"Mobile" , Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel: the Southern Tour , New York:
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Edward King Edward;
J. Wells Champney (1875),
"Mobile, the Chief City of Alabama" , The Great South , Hartford, Conn: American Pub. Co.
Saffold Berney (1878),
"Mobile" , Handbook of Alabama , Mobile: Mobile Register print.,
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"Mobile" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 16 (9th ed.). 1883.
Land, John E. (1884).
Mobile: Her Trade, Commerce and Industries, 1883-4 . J.E. Land.
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Charter and code of ordinances of the city of Mobile , Mobile, Ala, 1889 {{
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Willis G. Clark (1889).
"Public School System of Mobile" . History of Education in Alabama . U.S. Bureau of Education, Circular of Information. Washington DC: Government Printing Office.
Mobile in Photo-gravure . NY. 1892. {{
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Peter J. Hamilton (1897), Colonial Mobile , Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company,
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"Mobile" , Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to the Southeastern States , Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1899 – via Internet Archive
Published in the 20th century
"Mobile" , The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909,
OCLC
02338437
"Mobile" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 18 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 635–636.
Peter J. Hamilton (1912), Bicentennial Celebration ... of the Founding of Mobile , Mobile: Commercial Printing Company,
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Erwin Craighead (1914), The literary history of Mobile ,
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Map
Thomas McAdory Owen (1921),
"Mobile" , History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography , Chicago: S.J. Clarke,
OCLC
1872130
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Mobile", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South ,
American Guide Series , New York: Hastings House,
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"Mobile, Alabama's City in Motion",
National Geographic Magazine , Washington DC, vol. 133, 1968
Harriet Elizabeth Amos (1978). "All-Absorbing Topics: Food and Clothing in Confederate Mobile". Atlanta Historical Society Journal (22).
Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Mobile, AL", Encyclopedia of American Cities , New York:
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Harriet Elizabeth Amos (1981). "City Belles: Images and Realities of Lives of White Women in Antebellum Mobile". Alabama Review . 34 .
Harriet Elizabeth Amos (1985). Cotton City: Urban Development in Antebellum Mobile . University of Alabama Press.
Don Harrison Doyle (1990), New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 , Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
ISBN
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Bergeron, Arthur W. Confederate Mobile. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
Higganbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702–1711. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991.
Bruce Nelson (1993). "Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II". Journal of American History . 80 (3): 952–988.
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George Thomas Kurian (1994),
"Mobile, Alabama" , World Encyclopedia of Cities , vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
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"The South: Alabama: Mobile", USA ,
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Published in the 21st century
Michael Thomason (2001), Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City , University Alabama Press,
ISBN
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Fitzgerald, Michael W. Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860–1890. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Pride, Richard. The Political Use of Racial Narratives: School Desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, 1954–1997. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Gregory A. Waselkov (2002). "French Colonial Archaeology at Old Mobile: An Introduction". Historical Archaeology . 36 .
External links
Scotty E. Kirkland.
"Mobile" . Encyclopedia of Alabama . Alabama Humanities Foundation.
"Carnival/Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline" .
History Museum of Mobile .
"Selected Resources for Alabama Counties: Mobile County" . Birmingham Public Library.
"(City: Mobile)" . Alabama Repositories Directory . Alabama Department of Archives & History. A listing of public entities and private organizations holding historical records, artifacts, and other cultural heritage materials
"ADAH Digital Collections" . Alabama Department of Archives and History. . Materials related to Mobile, Ala.
Items related to Mobile, Alabama , various dates (via
Digital Public Library of America )
Map of Mobile , 1815
Materials related to Mobile, Alabama , various dates (via US Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
Materials related to Mobile, Alabama , various dates (via New York Public Library, Digital Collections)
Back in the Day in Mobile County - Free genealogy records, family stories, area descriptions and information on Mobile historical sites.
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