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The Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel & Spa, is a historic hotel in Mobile, Alabama. The current structure was built in 1908 as the Battle House Hotel . It is the second hotel by that name to stand in this location, replacing an earlier Battle House built in 1852, which burned down in 1905.
Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama. Its notable aircraft and museum ships include the South Dakota -class battleship USS Alabama and Gato -class submarine USS Drum .
Mobile was founded as the capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702 and remained a part of New France for over 60 years. During 1720, when France warred with Spain, Mobile was on the battlefront, so the capital moved west to Biloxi. [1]
The Story of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama: Gill Press, 1953. ISBN 0-940882-14-0; Thomason, Michael. Mobile: the new history of Alabama's first city. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8173-1065-7; National Park Service: Teaching with Historic Places: Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay; Flotte's Notes on Mobile, Alabama, History
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 ...
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.
Battleship Parkway, commonly referred to locally and in the media as the "Causeway", is a 7-mile (11.3 km) long causeway that carries US 90 and US 98 eastbound across Mobile Bay from the Bankhead Tunnel on Blakeley Island in Mobile, Alabama to Spanish Fort, Alabama. The roadway itself is a four-lane divided highway for most of its length.
Skyline of Mobile from Fort Conde. The U.S. city of Mobile, Alabama is the site of 15 high-rises, [1] all of which stand taller than 100 feet (30 m). The tallest building in the city is the 35-story RSA Battle House Tower, completed in 2007, which is 745 feet (227 m) tall. [2]