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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBR_james-w-roper_Mobile-AL.html
Owner - Builder
of Oakleigh
Born 1801 in South Carolina
(day and month of birth unknown)
Died Jan. 12, 1856
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBQ_le-marquis-de-lafayette-visited-mobile_Mobile-AL.html
On this site stood the home of Mayor Samuel H. Garrow, where the Marquis de Lafayette was entertained on his visit to Mobile, April 7, 1825. Lafayette, French officer, statesman, and hero of the American Revolution, visited the United States as "G…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBP_bettie-hunter-house_Mobile-AL.html
Built in 1878 in the Italianate style. In 1852, Bettie Hunter was born a slave in Dallas County, Alabama and later moved to Mobile after the Civil War. She and her brother, Henry Hunter, had a profitable carriage business in downtown Mobile. She d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBO_john-l-leflore_Mobile-AL.html
After the NAACP was outlawed in 1956, LeFlore and the Non-Partisan Voters League took a more active role in civil rights in Mobile. LeFlore served as its director of casework. He was a plaintiff in Bolden vs. Mobile and the judgement changed Mobil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBN_creole-firehouse-1_Mobile-AL.html
This two-story brick structure was built in 1869 with James H. Hutchinsson as architect to house the first volunteer fire company in Mobile. The company was founded in 1819. As descendants of the French, Spanish and Africans, the Creoles formed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBM_dr-h-roger-williams_Mobile-AL.html
Dr. Williams opened one of the early African-American drugstores- Live and Let Live on this site in 1901. Born on a sugar plantation in Louisiana, he graduated from Meharry Medical School in 1900 and was the second black physician to practice medi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBL_dr-thomas-n-harris_Mobile-AL.html
Dr. Harris, born April 6, 1868, in Montgomery, Alabama was one of the earliest black physicians to practice medicine in Mobile. He graduated in 1899 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee with dual degrees in dentistry and medicine. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MBJ_mobile-city-hospital_Mobile-AL.html
Built in 1830 by Thomas S. James, Mobile's third hospital has been preserved in its original design except for additions at each end, serving without interruption through disastrous fires, yellow fever epidemics, and war. For 83 years between 1861…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MB1_on-this-spot-woodrow-wilson-said_Mobile-AL.html
"I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has and s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MAW_400-government-street-1860_Mobile-AL.html
Antebellum town mansion
of W. H. Ketchum.
Commandeered as Headquarters of Union Army by General E. R. S. Canby, who occupied Mobile on April 12, 1865.
Since 1906 used as Cathedral Rectory and home of the Bishop of Mobile.