Place:Mobile, Alabama, United States

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NameMobile
Alt namesMobilesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates30.783°N 88.2°W
Located inAlabama, United States     (1812 - )
Contained Places
Cemetery
Mobile Memorial Gardens Cemetery
St. Elmo Cemetery
Inhabited place
Acropolis Heights
Akka
Alabama Port
Alderbrook
Allenville
Alpine Hills
Ashley Oaks
Axis
Barry Village
Bayleys Corner
Bayou La Batre
Belle Chene
Bellefontaine
Bellwood
Belvedere
Blue Ford Landing
Boothetown
Bridlewood
Brookwood
Bucks
Burma Hills
Canebrake
Canterbury Heights
Carriage Hills
Celeste
Charmingdale
Chastang
Chickasaw
Chunchula
Churchill Downs
Citronelle
Clarke Gardens
Cloverdale
Coden
College Woods
Cox
Creekwood
Creola
Dawes Point
Dawes
Deerwood
Dees
Delchamps
Dixon Corner
Earlville
Edgefield
Eight Mile
El Monte
Fairview
Farnell
Faustinas
Forest Highlands
Fort Gaines
Fort Stoddard
Fowl River
Galloway Landing
Georgetown
Glen Acres
Grand Bay
Gulf Dale
Gulfcrest
Hatters
Heron Bay
Hillsdale Heights
Howells Ferry Heights
Huntleigh Woods
Indian Hills
Irvington
Junior Acres
Kali-Oka Springs
Kirewakra
Kushla
Lambert Grove
Lambert
Lansdowne
Laurendine
Le Moyne
Lebaron Woods
Little Pines
Liveoak Landing
Lloyds
Lott
Mackies
Mann
Mauvilla
Meadow Lake
Millertown
Mobile ( 1711 - )
Moffet
Mon Louis
Mount Vernon
Movico
Nelson
Nenemoosha
Norwood
Oak Grove
Old Fort Stoddard Mount Vernon Landing
Park Forest
Parkwood
Petaluma
Pine Grove
Pine Run
Pine Wood
Pinecrest
Pineola
Ponderosa
Prichard
Princeton Woods
Quail Run
Red Creek Heights
Regency
Robinwood
Rolling Acres
Rosehaven
Saint Elmo
Salco
Sand Landing
Saraland
Satsuma
Scenic Hills
Scoutshire Woods
Semmes
Seven Hills
Sherwood
Sibert
Sidney
Smithfield
Smithport
Smithtown
South Orchard
Southridge
Spanish Trace
Spring Valley
Stage Coach Woods
Suburban Heights
Sugar Creek
Summerville
Sunny Cove
Sunset Ranch
Tacon
Tanner Williams
Theodore
Tillmans Corner
Timbers
Todd Acres
Turnerville
Union Church
Warley
West Hill
Wildwood Heights
Williams Heights
Wilmer
Windcrest
Winthrop Square
Island
Dauphin Island
Mon Louis Island
Unknown
Plateau
Whistler
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Mobile County is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the second most-populous county in the state after Jefferson County. As of the 2020 census, its population was 414,809. Its county seat is Mobile, which was founded as a deepwater port on the Mobile River. The only such port in Alabama, it has long been integral to the economy for providing access to inland waterways as well as the Gulf of Mexico.

The city, river, and county were named in honor of Maubila, a village of the paramount chief Tuskaloosa of the regional Mississippian culture. In 1540 he arranged an ambush of soldiers of Hernando de Soto's expedition in an effort to expel them from the territory. The Spaniards were armed with guns and killed many of the tribe. Mobile County and Washington County, Alabama make up the Mobile Metropolitan Statistical Area with a 2020 population of 430,197. The Mobile, AL MSA and Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL MSA make up the much larger Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope CSA with a 2020 population of 661,964.

The northern border of Mobile County and southern area of neighboring Washington County constitute the homeland of the state-recognized tribe of MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, descendants of Choctaw and Creek who stayed in this area during the period of Indian Removal. They have organized to preserve their culture and language. They were the first of nine tribes to be recognized by the state.

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History

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This area was occupied for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. At the time of Spanish expeditions in the early 16th century, it was part of the territory of the Mississippian culture, which constructed major earthwork mounds. It was ruled by the paramount chief Tuskaloosa.

The historic Choctaw emerged somewhat later, and are believed to be descendants of those earlier peoples. They occupied this area along what early French traders and colonists called the Mobile River. They also founded the settlement of Mobile on the river and bay in the early eighteenth century.

The British took over the territory in 1763 (along with other French territories east of the Mississippi River) after defeating the French in the Seven Years' War. During the American Revolutionary War, it came under Spanish rule as part of Spanish Florida. Spain ceded the territory to the United States after the War of 1812.

In the 1830s, the United States forced the removal of most of the Native American tribes in the area under President Andrew Jackson's policy and an act of Congress to relocate them to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Many of those who remained continued their culture, and took refuge in the swamps in the border area between Mobile and Washington counties. Since the late 20th century, several tribes have reorganized and gained state recognition. Among those is the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians, which was recognized as a tribe in 1979 by the state. The people have long been based in this area of the former Choctaw homeland, along the northern border of Mobile County and the southern border of Washington County.

After more than a century of European settlement, beginning with French colonists, Mobile County was organized by the state legislature and the proclamation of Governor Holmes of the Mississippi Territory on December 18, 1812. When Mississippi was separated and admitted as a state on December 10, 1817, after adopting its constitution on August 15, 1817, Mobile County became part of what was called the Alabama Territory. Two years later, the county became part of the state of Alabama, granted statehood on December 14, 1819.

The city of Mobile, first settled by French colonists in the early 18th century as part of La Louisiane, was designated as the county seat from the early days of the county.[1] Both the county and city derive their name from Fort Louis de la Mobile, a French fortification established (near present-day Axis, Alabama) in 1702. The word "Mobile" is believed to stem from a Choctaw word for "paddlers".[1] The area was occupied by French colonists from 1702 to 1763, and their influence has been strong in the city. It was ruled by the British from 1763 to 1780, when more American colonists began to enter the territory; and controlled by the Spanish from 1780 to 1813.

At the end of the War of 1812, the United States took over the territory. At that time, new settlers were being attracted to the land, eager to develop short-staple cotton in the uplands area. Invention of the cotton gin made processing of this type of cotton profitable, stimulating wholesale development of new cotton plantations in the Black Belt during the antebellum years. Mobile developed as a major deepwater port; in the nineteenth century, cotton was its major export.

There were nine documented lynchings in Mobile from 1891 to 1981.

  • March 31, 1891 — Zachariah Graham
  • October 2, 1906 — Roy Hoyle
  • October 2, 1906 — Willie Thompson
  • October 2, 1906 — Corneilius Robinson
  • September 22, 1907 — Mose Dossett
  • January 23, 1909 — Richard Robertson
  • July 31, 1910 — Bill Walker
  • June 6, 1919 — James E. Lewis
  • March 21, 1981 — Michael Donald

Courthouse fires occurred in the years 1823, 1840, and 1872.[1]

Timeline

Date Event Source
1812 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1812 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1813 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1814 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1820 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1840 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1871 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1820 2,672
1830 6,267
1840 18,741
1850 27,600
1860 41,131
1870 49,311
1880 48,653
1890 51,971
1900 62,740
1910 80,854
1920 100,117
1930 118,363
1940 141,974
1950 231,105
1960 314,301
1970 317,308
1980 364,980
1990 378,643

Note: Population for 1890 includes 384 Indians (Geronimo's Apaches) at Mount Vernon Barracks, reported separately.

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Mobile County, Alabama, United States

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