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The Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad vacated the old terminal building in 1986 and for fifteen years it suffered from demolition-by-neglect. The Alabama Historical Commission and the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation named it as one of their "Places in Peril" in 1996. [ 2 ]
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Mobile (/ m oʊ ˈ b iː l / moh-BEEL, French: ⓘ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census. [8] [9] After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobile's population increased to 204,689 residents, making it the fourth-most populous city in Alabama, after Montgomery, Birmingham, and ...
The International Longshoreman's Association Hall is a historic labor union meeting hall in Mobile, Alabama. The International Longshoremen's Association established the Mobile chapter in 1936 in order to represent the city's African American longshoremen. The hall was built in 1949 in the Art Moderne style. Many prominent African-American ...
Mobile's population had increased from around 40,000 people in 1900 to 60,000 by 1920. [6] Between 1940 and 1943, over 89,000 people moved into Mobile to work for war effort industries. [7] By 1956 the city limits had tripled to accommodate growth. The city lost many of its historic buildings during urban renewal in the 1960s and 1970s. This ...
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Bayou La Batre (/ ˌ b aɪ. oʊ l ə ˈ b æ t r i / or locally / ˌ b aɪ l ə ˈ b æ t r i /) is a city [a] in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.It is part of the Mobile metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,204, [3] down from 2,558 at the 2010 census.
The house burned in 1926. The Ashland Place Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1987. [1] It is roughly bounded by Spring Hill Avenue, Ryan Avenue, Old Shell Road, and Levert Avenue. [2] The district covers 400 acres (1.6 km 2) and contains 93 contributing buildings.