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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mobile, Alabama, USA.

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Prior to 19th century

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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.[3]
  • 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded.[4]
  • 1830
    • Spring Hill College and City Hospital[4] established.
    • Population: 3,194.[5]
  • 1835 - Franklin Society Reading Room and Library founded.[6][7]
  • 1839 - October 2: Fire.[8]
  • 1840
    • St. Francis Street Methodist Church founded.[4]
    • Population: 12,672.[5]
  • 1844 - Shaarai Shomayim congregation formed.[9]
  • 1850
  • 1852 - Public schooling begins in Barton Academy building.[10]
  • 1854 - Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce chartered.[4]
  • 1855 - Publisher S.H. Goetzel in business (approximate date).[11]
  • 1857 - City Hall built.

1860s

See also: Mobile, Alabama in the American Civil War

1870s-1890s

  • 1871 - Mobile Cotton Exchange established.
  • 1883 - Fidelia Club formed.[14]
  • 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.[1]
  • 1914 - Rotary Club of Mobile organized.[4]
  • 1918 - Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company in business.[15]
  • 1925 - Lincoln Theatre built.[16]
  • 1927 - Saenger Theatre built.[16]
  • 1929
  • 1936 - American Association of University Women of Mobile organized.[4]
  • 1937
  • 1953 - Consular Corps of Mobile organized (approximate date).[4]
  • 1962 - Mobile Genealogical Society founded.[20]
  • 1964 - Mobile British Women's Club active (approximate date).[4]
  • 1966 - Neighborhood Organized Workers established.[4]
  • 1974 - Azalea City News begins publication.[15]
  • 1985 - U.S. Naval Station Mobile opens.
  • 1989 - Mike Dow becomes mayor.[21]
  • 1993 - September 22: 1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck.
  • 1995

21st century

See also

Other cities in Alabama

References

  1. ^ a b Owen 1921.
  2. ^ a b c "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  3. ^ Goodrich 1839.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  7. ^ 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 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register". 1. Philadelphia. November 1839. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "Mobile, Alabama". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  10. ^ Clark 1889.
  11. ^ "Hathi Trust". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  12. ^ "Conventions by Year". Colored Conventions. P. Gabrielle Foreman, director. University of Delaware, Library. Retrieved June 30, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Toyin Falola and Amanda Warnock, ed. (2007). "Chronology". Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-33480-1. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ Tom McGehee (January 2012). "The Former Higgins Mortuary". Mobile Bay. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  15. ^ a b "Guide to Printed Material at The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library". University of South Alabama. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  17. ^ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  18. ^ 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
  19. ^ "FTZ Activity by State, 2015: Alabama", Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States, 2016
  20. ^ "Mobile Genealogical Society". Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  21. ^ "Mayor". City of Mobile. Archived from the original on August 3, 2001. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ "City of Mobile Home Page". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
  23. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  24. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Chronology", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House – via Hathi Trust {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

Published in the 20th century

  • "Mobile", The United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909, OCLC 02338437 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • "Mobile", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., 1910, OCLC 14782424 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • 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. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Map
  • Thomas McAdory Owen (1921), "Mobile", History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Chicago: S.J. Clarke, OCLC 1872130 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Mobile", Alabama; a Guide to the Deep South, American Guide Series, New York: Hastings House {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • "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. JSTOR 2080410.
  • George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Mobile, Alabama", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 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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