LAT: 30° 45′ 21″ N, LON: 88° 07′ 19″ W, Legal Location: T3S R1W Sec 36 Prichard Memorial Gardens is located in Eight Mile, Mobile County, Alabama. It was established as an Afro-American cemetery in 1974. The cemetery itself does not keep records of who has been interred there. According … Read more
February 6, 1938 – January 27, 2010 Mr. William Melvin Allen Sr., age 71 of Winter Haven, Florida passed away Wednesday January 27th, 2010 in a Winter Haven, Florida health care facility. He was a native of Bartow, Florida and a former resident of Gulfport, MS and Mobile, Alabama before … Read more
This is volume 1 of The Alabama Historical Quarterly published quarterly in 1930 by the Alabama State Department of Archives and History. You can freely read this manuscript online, search the manuscript, or download a PDF copy for offline reading.
The Spanish took a number of censuses during their periods of colonial control (1565-1763 and 1783-1821). The following is an extraction of the 1789 census for the area known as Tombigkee District or Tombigbee District.
The following is an extraction of the 1786 census for the area known as Mobile District.
A 1764 list of the inhabitants of Mobile West Florida who have taken the Oaths of Allegiences and Fidelity to his Brittonrick Majesty King George the third. Francois AlancetFrancois AlexanderIsabell AlexanderJean Baptist AlexandreJacco AmonPhillip ArmonJacque ArnaldJuliet De Brose ArzamariJoseph BadonJean BahamFrancois BarbaFrancois BarnardJohn Baptist BasdraJoseph BoughenonAndre BoullonNich BourieJoseph BouzageJean Lebin … Read more
Ms. Sharon Denise Miller, age 60 of Mobile, AL passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2019 at Providence Hospital. Ms. Miller was a life-long resident of Mobile and of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas R. and Betty Simpson Miller and her sister, Vicki … Read more
Fort Gaines, constructed in the 1850’s, was designed by Joseph G. Totten. Totten was, along with Simon Bernard, one of the original members of the board of engineers placed in charge of fortifications. Totten designed many of the later fortifications of the Third System, and was the foremost fortification engineer … Read more