Timeline of Mobile, Alabama
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
^ a b "Mardi Gras Isn't Just in New Orleans" , New York Times , March 1, 2017
^ a b c "US Newspaper Directory" . Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o McCall Library. "Collections" . University of South Alabama . Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ a b c Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
^ a b 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 30, 2015 .{{cite web }}
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^ 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 .
^ McCall Library. "Online Exhibits" . University of South Alabama. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
^ "American and Western Photographic Societies" , International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin , New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company , 1890
^ a b "Guide to Printed Material at The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library" . University of South Alabama . Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ a b "Historic Theatre Inventory" . Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Alabama" , Radio Annual , New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
^ "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), Tax Free Trade Zones Of The World And In The United States , Edward Elgar, p. 360, ISBN 978-1-84980-243-7
^ "FTZ Activity by State, 2015: Alabama" , Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States , 2016
^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Alabama" , Radio Annual and Television Year Book , New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
^ a b c d e f g h i "Sister Cities: Program Links Mobile with its International Counterparts", Mobile Register , September 1, 1993
^ "Mobile Genealogical Society" . Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ a b c "Mobile's Sister Cities" . City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
^ a b M.F. Mikula; et al., eds. (1999), Great American Court Cases , Gale
^ "Mobile's Sister Cities", Mobile Press Register , December 19, 1982
^ "Municipal Archives" . City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017 .
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"Mayor" . City of Mobile. Archived from the original on August 3, 2001.
^ "City of Mobile Home Page" . Archived from the original on 1996-12-22 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine .
^ "Meet the Mayors" . Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors . Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2013 .
^ "Sister City", Mobile Register , November 3, 2005
^ "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, OL 22886873M
"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.
"Mobile, Alabama" . Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion . 12 . Boston. 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: 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., OL 24232267M
"Mobile" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 16 (9th ed.). 1883.
Land, John E. (1884). Mobile: Her Trade, Commerce and Industries, 1883-4 . J.E. Land.
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{{citation }}
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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.{{cite book }}
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Peter J. Hamilton (1897), Colonial Mobile , Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, OCLC 3580977 , OL 271548M
"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, OL 23365574M
Erwin Craighead (1914), The literary history of Mobile , OCLC 5058844 , OL 6576822M
"Mobile" . Automobile Blue Book . USA. 1919.{{cite book }}
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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, hdl :2027/uc1.b4469723
"Mobile, Alabama's City in Motion", National Geographic Magazine , vol. 133, Washington DC, 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 (3): 952– 988. doi :10.2307/2080410 . JSTOR 2080410 .
George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Mobile, Alabama" , World Encyclopedia of Cities , vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
"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.
"(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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