Timeline of Mobile, Alabama
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mobile, Alabama, USA.
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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.[2]
- 1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated.
- 1819 - City of Mobile incorporated.
- 1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication.
- 1827 - Fire.
- 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.[4]
- 1830 - Spring Hill College and City Hospital[4] established.
- 1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.[5][6]
- 1839 - October 2: Fire.[7]
- 1840 - St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.[4]
- 1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.[8]
- 1850
- Mobile Evening News begins publication.[2]
- Population: 20,515.
- Bienville Square (city park) established.
- 1852 - Public schooling begins in Barton Academy building.
- 1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.[4]
- 1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).[10]
- 1857 - City Hall built.
1860s
1870s-1890s
- 1871 - Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
- 1883 - Fidelia Club formed.[13]
- 1889 - Mobile County Courthouse built.
- 1894 - Clara Schumann Club (music group) formed.[4]
20th century
- 1902 - Mobile Public Library established.
- 1907 - Union Depot built.
- 1910 - Population: 51,521.
- 1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.[4]
- 1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.[14]
- 1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.[15]
- 1927 - Saenger Theatre built.[15]
- 1929
- 1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.[4]
- 1937 - Aluminum Ore Company refining plant constructed.[4]
- 1953 - Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).[4]
- 1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.[16]
- 1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).[4]
- 1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.[4]
- 1974 - Azalea City News begins publication.[14]
- 1985 - U.S. Naval Station Mobile opens.
- 1989 - Mike Dow becomes mayor.[17]
- 1993 - September 22: 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.
- 1995
21st century
See also
- Other cities in Alabama
References
- 1 2 3 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 McCall Library. "Collections". University of South Alabama. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- 1 2 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Charles Coffin Jewett (1851), "Alabama", Notices of public libraries in the United States of America, Washington, D.C: U.S. House of Representatives, OCLC 18394449
- ↑ "Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register" 1. Philadelphia. November 1839.
- ↑ "Mobile, Alabama". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Hathi Trust". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved June 2015.
- ↑ Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1.
- ↑ Tom McGehee (January 2012). "The Former Higgins Mortuary". Mobile Bay. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- 1 2 "Guide to Printed Material at The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library". University of South Alabama. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- 1 2 "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Mobile Genealogical Society". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ "Mayor". City of Mobile. Archived from the original on August 3, 2001.
- ↑ "City of Mobile Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Chronology", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House – via Hathi Trust
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Mobile", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- "An Act to alter and amend the Charter of Incorporation of the City of Mobile", Acts of Alabama, 1824
- Mobile Directory, Mobile, Alabama: H.M. McGuire and T.C. Fay, 1837
- "Mobile", The North American Tourist, New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1839
- "Mobile, Alabama". Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion (Boston) 12. June 27, 1857.
- "Alabama River: Mobile". James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1860.
- Edward H. Hall (1866), "Mobile", Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel: the Southern Tour, New York: D. Appleton & Company
- 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.
- Mobile: Her Trade, Commerce and Industries, 1883-4. 1884.
- Mobile: seaport and trade center; her relations to the New South. USA: Metropolitan and Star. 1888.
- Charter and code of ordinances of the city of Mobile, Mobile, Ala, 1889
- 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.
- Peter J. Hamilton (1897), Colonial Mobile, Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, OCLC 3580977
- Published in the 20th century
- "Mobile", The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
- "Mobile", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
- Peter J. Hamilton (1912), Bicentennial Celebration ... of the Founding of Mobile, Mobile: Commercial Printing Company
- Erwin Craighead (1914), The literary history of Mobile, OCLC 5058844
- "Mobile". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919. 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
- "Mobile, Alabama's City in Motion", National Geographic Magazine (Washington DC) 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: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- 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 0807818836
- 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. JSTOR 2080410.
- "The South: Alabama: Mobile", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M
- Published in the 21st century
- Michael Thomason (2001), Mobile: The New History of Alabama's First City, University Alabama Press, ISBN 9780817310653
- 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.
- "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)
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Coordinates: 30°41′40″N 88°02′35″W / 30.694444°N 88.043056°W / 30.694444; -88.043056