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Mobile (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 30 41 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 30.6833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 088 02 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -88.0333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in SW Alabama at mouth of Mobile River on Mobile Bay; part of purchase of Florida from Spain in 1819; important Confederate port in Civil War until Battle of Mobile Bay, 1864; taken by Union troops 1865; municipality went bankrupt in 1879. |
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| Mobile (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name is French adaptation of local Amerindian tribal name Maubilian, meaning "canoe peddler" |
| La Mobile (C,V)
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Mobile (county) (P) |
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Mobile (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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explored by Spanish ca. 1519; settled by French in 1711; ceded to Britain 1763; occupied by USA in 1813; chartered in 1887 |
| city (C) |
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since 1819 |
| county seat (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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for Spring Hill (1830), Mobile & Bishop State Junior colleges, University of South Alabama & for 1st public school in Alabama |
| fort (C) |
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established upriver by French & moved to site of Mobile in 1711 |
| industrial center (C) |
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for aluminum, shipbuilding & repair, petroleum products & chemicals |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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for textiles, paper, lumber & food processing |
| military center (C) |
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for Brookley Field, a USA Air Force base |
| seaport (C) |
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is river port & only seaport in Alabama, growth aided by locks & dams & opening of Gulf Intracoastal Waterway & barge lines |
| tourist center (C) |
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for Bellingrath Gardens, antebellum homes, Forts Morgan & Gaines & for Battleship USS "Alabama" Memorial Park |
| trade center (C) |
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for banana imports & for exports of cotton, coal, agricultural & forest products, it fluorished with opening of Panama Canal |
| battlefield (H) |
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captured by Union troops under Gen. Canby in April 1865 |
| capital (H) |
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of French Louisiana from 1711-1720 |
| fur station (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| is location of .... |
Fort Conde .......... (deserted settlement) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Alabama, Mobile county) [8712742] |
| moved from .... |
Old Mobile Site .......... (archaeological site) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Alabama, Mobile county, Axis) [7030451] |
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1711 |
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