Timeline of Mobile, Alabama

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Prior to 19th century[]

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19th century[]

See also: Mobile, Alabama in the American Civil War
  • 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.[3]
  • 1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated.
  • 1819 - City of Mobile incorporated.
  • 1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication.
  • 1827 - Fire.[4]
  • 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.[5]
  • 1830
    • Spring Hill College and City Hospital[5] established.
    • Population: 3,194.[6]
  • 1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.[7][8]
  • 1839 - October 2: Fire.[9]
  • 1840
    • St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.[5]
    • Population: 12,672.[6]
  • 1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.[10]
  • 1850
  • 1852 - Public schooling begins in Barton Academy building.[11]
  • 1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.[5]
  • 1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).[12]
  • 1857 - City Hall built.
  • 1860 - Population: 29,258.
  • 1861 - City becomes part of the Confederate States of America.
  • 1864 - Wilmer Hall established.[5]
  • 1865 - State colored convention held in city.[13]
  • 1868 - Africatown established near Mobile.[14]
  • 1869 - Mobile Bar Association[5] and Mobile Law Library founded.[7]
  • 1871 - Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
  • 1872 - Mobile Carnival Association established.[1]
  • 1883
    • Fidelia Club formed.[15]
    • Drago Band (musical group) active (approximate date).[16]
  • 1889 - Mobile County Courthouse built.
  • 1890 - Mobile Camera Club founded.[17]
  • 1894 - Clara Schumann Club (music group) formed.[5]

20th century[]

  • 1902 - Mobile Public Library established.
  • 1907 - Union Depot built.
  • 1910 - Population: 51,521.[2]
  • 1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.[5]
  • 1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.[18]
  • 1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.[19]
  • 1927 - Saenger Theatre built.[19]
  • 1929
  • 1930 - WALA radio begins broadcasting.[20]
  • 1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.[5]
  • 1937
    • Foreign trade zone established.[21][22][23]
    • Aluminum Ore Company refining plant constructed.[5]
  • 1940 - Population: 78,720.
  • 1950 - Population: 129,009.
  • 1953
    • WALA-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[24]
    • Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).[5]
  • 1955 - WKRG-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[24]
  • 1960
    • Sister city agreement established with Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.[25]
    • Population: 202,779.
  • 1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.[26]
  • 1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).[5]
  • 1965 - Sister city agreement established with Málaga, Spain.[25]
  • 1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.[5]
  • 1974
    • Azalea City News begins publication.[18]
    • Sister city agreement established with Pau, France.[25]
  • 1975 - Springhill Medical Center (then called Springhill Memorial Hospital) opens.
  • 1976 - City twins with Worms, Germany.[27]
  • 1980
  • 1982 - Sister city agreement established with Zakynthos, Greece (approximate date).[29]
  • 1983 - Mobile Municipal Archives founded.[30]
  • 1985 - U.S. Naval Station Mobile opens.
  • 1988 - Sister city agreement established with Rostov on Don, Russia.[25]
  • 1989
  • 1990 - Sister city agreement established with Katowice, Poland.[25]
  • 1992 - Sister city agreement established with Košice, Slovakia.[25]
  • 1993
    • September 22: 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.
    • Sister city agreement established with Havana, Cuba,[27] and Ichihara, Japan.[25]
  • 1995
  • 1998 - Sammy’s v. City of Mobile strip club-related lawsuit decided.[28]

21st century[]

  • 2002 - Tricentennial of founding of Mobile.[5]
  • 2005
    • Sam Jones becomes first African-American in city elected mayor.[33]
    • City twins with Cockburn, Australia,[27] and establishes sister city agreement with Bolinao, Philippines.[34]
  • 2010 - Population: 195,111.[35]
  • 2012 - Christmas tornado outbreak.
  • 2015 - Bayfest is cancelled.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Mardi Gras Isn't Just in New Orleans", New York Times, March 1, 2017
  2. ^ a b Owen 1921.
  3. ^ a b c "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  4. ^ Goodrich 1839.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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
  7. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ "Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register". 1. Philadelphia. November 1839. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ "Mobile, Alabama". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  11. ^ Clark 1889.
  12. ^ "Hathi Trust". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  13. ^ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved June 30, 2015.CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1.
  15. ^ Tom McGehee (January 2012). "The Former Higgins Mortuary". Mobile Bay. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  16. ^ McCall Library. "Online Exhibits". University of South Alabama. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
  17. ^ "American and Western Photographic Societies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1890
  18. ^ a b "Guide to Printed Material at The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library". University of South Alabama. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  19. ^ a b "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  20. ^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Alabama", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
  21. ^ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  22. ^ 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
  23. ^ "FTZ Activity by State, 2015: Alabama", Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States, 2016
  24. ^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Alabama", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
  25. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Sister Cities: Program Links Mobile with its International Counterparts", Mobile Register, September 1, 1993
  26. ^ "Mobile Genealogical Society". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  27. ^ a b c "Mobile's Sister Cities". City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  28. ^ a b M.F. Mikula; et al., eds. (1999), Great American Court Cases, Gale
  29. ^ "Mobile's Sister Cities", Mobile Press Register, December 19, 1982
  30. ^ "Municipal Archives". City of Mobile. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  31. ^ "Mayor". City of Mobile. Archived from the original on August 3, 2001.
  32. ^ "City of Mobile Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  33. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  34. ^ "Sister City", Mobile Register, November 3, 2005
  35. ^ "Mobile city, Alabama". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  36. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Chronology", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House, hdl:2027/uc1.b4469723 – via Hathi Trust

Bibliography[]

Published in the 19th century[]

Published in the 20th century[]

  • "Mobile", The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437
  • "Mobile", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopædia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424
  • 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. 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, hdl:2027/uc1.b4469723
  • "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 (3): 952–988. doi:10.2307/2080410. JSTOR 2080410.
  • George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Mobile, Alabama", World Encyclopedia of Cities, 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO – 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.

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