Historic

Mobile

Preservation

Society

President David Calametti
First Vice President

Martha LoCicero
Second Vice President

Dora Finley
Third Vice President

Douglas Kearley
Treasurer Gail Davenporte
Secretary Bob Peck

Board of Directors

Mary Cook
Greg Cyprian
Amy Hamilton
Joy Klotz
Cameron Pfeiffer
L. Craig Roberts
Kate Seawell
Beth Eichold Walmsley
 

Advisors
Tommy Ankerson
Ruth Austill
Emily Miller
Robin Roberts
Nell Rutherford
Sally Trufant
Jane Williamson
Helen Wilson

 

Marilyn Culpepper,

Executive

Director

 

Jean

Marzullo,

Outreach

Director

 

Ann Jones,

Oakleigh Site Manager

 

 

Christine

Cramer,

Archives

Manager

 

Willie

Lynch,

Maintenance Superintendent

 


Miranda Culpepper

Gift Shop Assistant

 

WILSON PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK AVAILABLE

You may purchase a copy of the soft-cover book Mobile: Photographs from the William E. Wilson Collection  by Marilyn Culpepper for HMPS and published by Arcadia Press in 2001 as part of its Images of America series.

To order, send check or money order in the amount of $24.42 ($19.95+$1.96 tax+$2.61 S&H) to Oakleigh Gift Shop, 300 Oakleigh Place, Mobile, AL 36604 OR stop by the Oakleigh Gift Shop located on the first floor of the Oakleigh House Museum to buy a copy. The Gift Shop is open daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  If you wish the book personalized, please specify for whom the book is intended and what the inscription should say.

 

HMPS is producing a book on Mobile County History to be released next Spring. If you are interested in having the history of your business, organization or attraction included, please call 251.432.6161 or email hmps@bellsouth.net for information.

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Oakleigh Historic House

300 Oakleigh Place

Mobile, AL 36604

The Official Period House of the City of Mobile, AL

Oakleigh Mansion phone:

(251) 432-1281

Site Last Updated: 12/31/2007 12:22:49 PM 

Mitchell Archives

One of the main objectives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society is the preservation of records, books, documents and memorabilia relating to Mobile's history. Collections were started with the Society's organization in 1935.

The research and study activities of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society are concentrated in the Minnie Mitchell Archives Building. Numerous original documents, Confederate documents, maps, first editions, and rare books are included in the archive's collection. There are many photographs, including the William E. Wilson Photographic Collection of 1894-1905, William E. Wilson came to Charleston, South Carolina from London, England in 1855 as a child. He began to study photography in New York and moved to Mobile in 1894. Here he compiled an impressive history of the city, which includes 2000 original glass negatives that may be viewed as 8x10 prints.

Historic Mobile Preservation Society also houses the George B. Rogers architectural library. This 404-volume collection includes books on topics ranging from landscape architecture to hardware catalogs and personal photograph albums. These pieces offer a power insight into the mind and imagination of one of the city's most notable architects.

The extensive files of the Bedsole Trust are also available for researchers in the Reading Room. These holdings refer to the City Hospital Restoration Board and the multi-million dollar adaptive use restoration of the 1836 City Hospital.

The archive also holds the first edition of the Mobile Commercial Register, Volume 1, Number 1, dated December 10, 1821, numerous clippings and memorabilia, and the log book of the Steamer S. E. Meaher, 1855.

The holdings are constantly updated with the addition of clippings, books, historical records, photographs, and related items including an oral history collection, which is a continuing project. The Historic Mobile Preservation Society continually studies ways to expand its archival program as an aid to teachers and students, for providing community program materials, and as an important asset to Mobile's overall historic preservation effort.

 

HISTORIC MOBILE PRESERVATION SOCIETY HOLDINGS INDEX

 

MAPS
Specialty Maps
Enchanted Land, map of area, by Walter Overton 1971
Markers erected by the Al. Society of Colonial Dames
Bicentennial map of Mobile, 1711-1911
Literary map of Al. pub. 1969
Map of Mobile Bay history, by N.H.Holmes, 1937
Pensacola Historical Map
Maps 18th Century
Map of American Indian Nation adjoining Mississippi, West & East Florida, Georgia, North & South Carolina, and Virginia.
Plano de Bahia de Movilo
Plans of the fortifications at Mobile point
Plan of Mobile
French map – mouth of Mississippi & Gulf, 1702
French map of Louisiana & Florida, 1712
British Admiralty chart, 1771
“des Costes la Louisianne et de la Florida, 1774
Plan of Mobile (blue print), 1780
Pensacola – North Hill – Seville Square Historic District, 1781
Map of Thomas Price claim granted to him by Spanish government, 1798
Maps 19th Century
Map of boundary between Texas & New Mexico
Plan of lots in Church Street Cemetery
Favre tract
Township & sectional map – Mobile County
List of all houses on the west side of the Tombigbee ant the east side of the Tensaw Cedar Point – Heron Bay area
200 miles around Montgomery, Al.
Map of Mobile – 1802
Plan of the city of Mobile, 1802 – 1813
Plan of Mobile, 1809
Land claimed by W.E. Kennedy in favor of Joshua Kennedy, 1818
Mobile Bay & adjacent waters, 1820
Plans and views of Mobile, 1821
Alabama, 1822
Township plot, 4 N. range 1 E., Washington County, 1830
Township plot, 4 N. range 1 E., Washington County, 1830
Township plat 4N range 1W, 1830
Township 4 plat range 1W (marked void)
Mobile Bay Area – 3 Mile Creek to Waterfront. 1832
Land district & the Island of New Orleans south of 3 Mile Creek, 1832
1st geographical map of Al., 1835
Map of Mississippi and Al., 1838
Bernoudy Tract, 1839, de Tonti Square historic district, 1840
East land district part of Al., 1849
Mobile, 1852
Mobile harbor, 1861
Defenses of Mobile, 1862 – 1864
Entrance of Admiral Farragut into Mobile Bay, 1864
Same as above, drawn by Marion Acker, 1962
Battlefield, Harrisburg, Mississippi, 1864 C. 1912
Military – U.S. forces under Sherman, 1863 – 1865
Rebel defenses, Mobile, occupied by Union forces, 1865
Rebel defenses occupied by Union forces, April 12, 1865
Siege operations at Spanish Fort, April 8 –9, 1865
Mobile bay & surrounding area, June 1, 1865
Spanish fort during siege, 1865
Sketch of Spanish fort defenses during siege, 1865
Fortifications at Spanish Fort, April 8, 1865
Rebel defenses, Mobile, April 12, 1865
Map of fortifications in Bay, April, 1865. drawn by Thomas Roche Harrison
Rebel defenses of Mobile (from National Archives)
Rebel lines Mobile defenses, 1865
Map of Mobile Bay & surrounding areas
Rebel lines – Ft. Jeb Stuart, Ft. Morton, Ft. Lunette, 1865
Rebel lines, Mobile defenses, siege of Petersburg, 1865
Atlas to accompany the official records of Union & Confederate Armies, government printing office 1893.
1. Defenses of Mobile, 1864
2. Campaign of the army of West Mississippi, M/A, 1865
3. Campaign of the Army of West Mississippi M/A, 1865
4. Gulf of Mexico, Miss., Al., Ga., Fla., map sheet XII
5. Rebel defenses Mobile, April 12, 1865 (and other areas)
6. Defenses of Mobile, October, 30, 1865
Mobile River Delta
Whistler Land Tract, 1878
Part of Ward 8, Mobile, 1878
Espejo tract, 1879
Cotton’s map of Al., 1880
Book of maps of Mobile, 1880
Township and sectional map of Mobile County, 1880
Maps of the 20th Century
Mobile, 1900
City of Mobile, 1901
Sketch of Sullivan Lands, Chickasaw
Greater Mobile, 1907
Widell’s sectional map for Mobile County, 1907
Old Spanish Trail, Locke’s Ocean to Ocean Roadmap, 1916
Locke’s Good Roadmap, 1917
Locke’s Good Roadmaps, 1918-1919
Locke’s Good Roadmap-1919
Mobile, compiled by John Peavy, 1918
City of Mobile, 1918
Mobile River Delta, 1920
Downtown Mobile, 1920
Designated Old Spanish trail through Baldwin County, 1922
Mobile, 1927
Mobile Bay, 1937
Al. highway map, 1939
Mobile River Delta, 1940
Tensaw geological survey, 1944
Greater Mobile, 1946
Greater Mobile, Dolph, greater Mobile, 1950
Al. State highway system, 1951
L&N and affiliated lines, 1956
Al. Civil War Centennial highway map, 1961
Al. highway, 1963
Mobile streets, 1963
Mobile, 1973
Highpoint Blvd., 1974 (University study)
Proposed University Blvd. from Hwy 90 to N. of Moffat, 1974
Subdivision of Dauphin Island, 1953
Sales map Royal Lagoons Addition Unit 1, 1953
Plat map (23 pages), 1953
Unknown 9 south 3 east St. Stephens Meridian (Gulf Shores)

 

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BOXES

Box Heading

Box Number

“All Our Yesterdays”(from Mobile Register)

3

Artists

51

As You Like It Club

44

Beverly Papers

47

Brookely Field WWII

60

Catholic Church

52

Century Book Club

26

Coins (see Military Memorabilia)

6

Commemorative Objects

4

Czarnowski (Roehmer/LeBaron) Collection

27

Diard Family

18

Eastern Shore Archives

31

Eichold, Dr.

57

Fire Companies

38

Fry – Robinson Family

1

Glennon, John

56

Gordon Family

27

Gould, Elizabeth

41

Gulf Fishing & Hunting Club

28

HMPS/Kirkbride House 1947

71

HMPS minute books

70

HMPS Executive Board minutes

70.1

Holmes, Nicholas

43

Humane Society

20

Hunley

37

C. L. Hutchisson

46

Ingate, Margaret Rose

42

Irwin Family

15, 16, 17

James, Thomas S.

27

Mardi Gras

32

Mayton, William T.

69

Meaher Family

50

Medical Society of Mobile County

7 – 14

Medical Association of Alabama

54

Military Memorabilia

6

Mobile Historic Society

56

Mobile Medical Society – Women’s Auxiliary

39

Mobile Rifle Scrapbook &Price –Williams

73

Mobile Yacht Club

30

Murphy High School, Junior Historic Society

65

Music, sheet music

2

National League Am. Pen Women, Mobile branch

67

Oakleigh

49

Oakleigh Garden Society

58

Protestant Children’s Home, minutes 19c.

19

Protestant Children’s Home, minutes 20c.

19-A

Rohmer Family

27

St. Francis Street United Methodist Church

45

Scrapbooks, Misc.

59, 64

Shakespeare Club

21–25

Shawhan, Narcissa T.

5

Sledge Family

61-63

Snevely, Lucy Crichton

29

Toulmin, George B.

35

Toulminville Civic Club

34

Vanderbilt

68

Videos

53

Walker Warehouse

40

Wilson, John B. 33


Historic American Building Survey: 1963
Christ Episcopal Church, HABS 1-3
Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, HABS 4
Government Street Presbyterian Church, HABS 5-8
Church Street Cemetery, HABS 9-12
Magnolia Cemetery, HABS 13-14
City Hall and Southern Market, HABS 15
Sterrett McWilliams house, HABS 16-20
Bunker – DuMont house, HABS 21-28
Three Sisters house, HABS 29-30
Hamilton – Gaillard house, HABS 31
Brooks house, HABS 32-33
Robinson Twin house, HABS 34
House (203 Conception Street) HABS 35
Decatur C. Anderson house, HABS 36-45
Revault- Maupin–Shawhan house, HABS 46
Charles K. Foote house, HABS 47-48
Calvert – Webster house, HABS 49-53
Parmly houses, HABS 54
Chamberlain – Rapier double house, HABS 55
Milton S. Brown house, HABS 56
Great American Building Survey, continued
Llyod Bowers house, HABS 57-63
Charles L. Huger house, HABS 64-65
House (207 Conception St) HABS 66
Quigley Twin house, HABS 67
Rider house, HABS 68
Bishop Michael Portier house, HABS 69
Durand double house, HABS 70-78
Briarwood (Sewall House), HABS 79-96
Gainswood, HABS 96-104
Phoenix Fire Company No.6, HABS 105-106
Washington Fire Engine Company No. 8, HABS 107-108
Duncan Place, HABS 109
Jonathan Emanuel house, HABS 110-115
Dargan-Waring house, HABS 116-117
Horta-Semmes house, HABS 118-127
Audley H. Gazzam house, HABS 128-130
George W. Tarleton house, HABS 131
City Hospital, HABS 132
Ironwork, HABS 133-141
Reingard Double house, HABS 142-150
Bates-Henderson house, HABS 151
Thomas S. James double house, HABS 152-173
Charles G. Richards house, HABS 174-178
Historic American Building Survey, continued
Finch house, HABS 179
Gin house (Mule Gin), HABS 180-183
Robert S. Bunker house (Moreland house), HABS 184
Elizabeth George house, HABS 185
Bloodgood’s Row, HABS 186
Beal-Gaillard house, HABS 187
Oakleigh, HABS 188-202
Calef-Staples house, HABS 203
Odd Fellows Hall, HABS 204
P.O. Barker house, HABS 205
Smith-Clark house, HABS 206-213
Bush-Mohr house, HABS 215-216
John S. Gliddon house, HABS 216-231
Hall-Ford house, HABS 232235
Sanford-Staylor house, HABS 236-241
Miguel Eslava Jr. house, HABS 242
Hanlein house, HABS 243
Hammond-Willoughby house, HABS (?) 244-252
Vanroy-Barnwell house (Jacobson house), HABS 253
Vincent-Walsh house, HABS 254
Spring Hill College, HABS 255-258
Patrick J. Lyons house, HABS 259-261
Tate house, HABS 262
Walsh house, HABS 263
Mrs. Margaret Gonzales house, HABS 264
Street Furnishings, HABS 265-284
Kirkbride house (fort Conde’-Charlotte house) HABS 285-287
Marshall-Eslava house, HABS 288-290
Gulf City Hotel, HABS 291
SURNAME FILES
Alexander, William Anthony
Aaron, Hank
Audubon, John James (see Harris family)
Austill, Jeremiah
Austin, Hiram
Bagby, Arthur Pendelton
Barnwell, Robert Woodward
Barton, Willoughby
Bartram, William (see also Dog River – history)
Batre’, Adele Marie
Baxley, Jackson Brown
Bellingrath, Bessie Mae Morse
Bellingrath, Walter Duncan
Benn, Arthur Shirley
Betbze, Yolande
Beverly, Francis Baugh
Bienville, Jean Baptiste Le Moyne
Bloch, Daniel W.
Bloch, Joseph
Booth, Edwin
Boyington, Charles R.
Boykin, Frank William
Bragg, Braxton
Bragg, John
Bromberg, Frederick George
Brother, Charles
Bryant, Alma
Bunker, Robert Seafort
Burr, Aaron
Busteed, Richard
Cadillac, Antione de la Mothe
Caffey, William Garrett Jr.
Cain, Joe
Caldwell, James H.
Callahan, H. L. (Sonny)
Campbell, John Archibald
Campbell, William Edward (see March, William)
Carver, George Washington
Cawthon, Orville F.
Chandler, Hatchett (see also Fort Morgan)
Chateaugue, Antoine Le Moyne
Chaudron, Jean Simon
Chin, Tom Clark Family
Clausel, Bernard
Clay, Clement C., Jr.
Clay, Henry
Cluis, John Jerome
Cody, Tom English
Corday, Charlotte
Craft, John
Craighead, Erwin
Creighton, Ethel Steele
Croom, Cicero Stephens
Dakin, Charles
Dale, Samuel
Danner, Albert Carey
Dawson, John C.
Dawson, William Alfred
Deas, Zachariah Cantey
Deasy, Edmund E.
DeCelle, Edmond C.
Delage, Charles L.
Delaney, Caldwell
Delchamps, Alfred F.
Delchamps Family
DeLeon, Thomas Cooper
Denton, Jeremiah A.
De Soto, Hernando
Devol, William
Diard, Francois Ludgere
Dodd Family
Dow, Lorenzo
Dow, Michael Craig
Dunn, William D.
Durham, Frances
Edwards, Jack
Eichold, Samuel
Ellicott, Andrew
Eslava, Don Miguel
Farragut, David Glasgow
Fenollosa, Mary McNeill
Figures, Family
Forsyth, John
Fowler, John Ellis
Surname Files, continued
Fowler, Thomas Newton
Fry, Joseph
Gaines, Edmund Pendleton
Gaines, Edmund Pendelton, M.D.
Gaines, George Strother
Gaines, Toulmin
Gaither, Frances
Garrow, Samuel Hilary
Gayfer, Charles John
Gayle, John
Gayoso de Lanos, Manuel
Geronimo
Gillette, Daniel Holbrook
Girard, Augustus
Glennon, John
Gorgas, William Crawford
Grant, John
Groom, Winston
Hamilton, Peter Joseph
Hamilton, Thomas Alexander Goodwin Turner
Hammel, Leopold
Harris Family
Hartwell, Harry T.
Hearin, Emily Staples
Hearin, William J.
Herndon, Thomas Hord
Heustis, Louise Lyons
Higginbotham, Jay
Hitchcock, Henry
Hobson, Richmond Pearson
Hogan, John Benjamin
Hollinger, Mary Josephine Jusan
Hopkins, Juliet Ann Opie (see also silver articles private collection)
Horton, Gustavus
Hotz, Henry
Houston, Margaret Lea
Hutchison, Miller Reese
Hutchisson, James F.
Irwin Family
James Family
Jackson, Andrew
Jefferson, Joseph
Jones, Catesby
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnstone Family
Kelley, William D.
Kennedy, Joshua
Ketchum Family
Key, Francis Scott
Kimball, Forrest
King, William Rufus
Kirby, Ephraim
Lafayette, Marie Joseph
Lafitte, John
Langan, Joseph
Langdon, Charles C.
La Salle, Robert
Lawler, Joab
Lee, Robert Edward
Le Moyne Family
LaVert, Henry Strachey
LaVert, Octavia Walton
Lewis, Addin
Lewis, Cudjo (see Clothidle)
Linscott Family
Lipscomb, Oscar H.
Loding, Henry Peter
Lyons, Hilary Herbert, Jr.
Lyons, Sage
McCloskey, Frank
McCorvey, Thomas Chalmers
MacKenzie, Roderick Dempster
Madoc (1150-1180?)
Mann, William D’Alton
March, William Campbell
Marschall, Nicola
Marry Mates
Mason, Tom
Mastin, William McDowell
Maury, Harry
Maybrick, Florence Chandler
Meaher Family
Meldrum, John
Mitchell, F.H.
Mohr, Charles T.
Moog Family
Morphy, Paul
Narvaez, (de Narvaez) Panfilo
Nelson, David Wallace
Nichol, William Becroft
North, Stephen Balcomb
Norville, Warren
Nott, Josiah Clark
Outlaw, Arthur
Pape, Willie
Pegram, Robert B.
Pelham, John
Pennington, Edgar L.
Perrine, Lucy Harris
Portier, Michael
Prichard, Billy
Proskauer, Joseph
Quigley, Anne
Raser, Edward J.
Rayford, Julian Lee
Rives, Amelie
Riviere, Emily Blount (de Riviere)
Robert, Kay Ayers
Roche, Emma Langdon
Roche – James Family
Rogers, George Bigelow
Rohmer, Francis Jean Baptiste
Root, Chester
Roper Family
Rush, Benjamin W.
Ryan, Abram Joseph
St. Paul, Henri Honore
Sands, Robert Martin
Schieffelin Family
Schwarz, Leon
Schwarz, Marilyn
Seale, Harry
Semmes, Raphael
Shawhan, Narcissa Taylor
Sheffield, Joseph Earl
Sibert, William L.
Simon, Sidney B.
Sledge, Mary Frank ( Mrs. E.S.)
Smith, Bradley Goodyear
Smith, Gordon
Smith, Sidney Adair
Smith, William Edward
Snevely, Lucy Crichton
Sossaman Family
Stein, Albert
Stewart, Roger
Stickney, Henry
Strickland, William
Swingle, Ward
Taylor, Hannis
Tindel, Pleasant May
Tonti, Henry (de Tonti)
Toolen, Thomas J.
Toulmin Family
Toxey, Caleb
Tucker, Augusta
Tucker, Gardiner C.
Tyson Family
Van Aken, Helen Jemison Waterman
Van Antwerp Family
Vanderbilt Family
Van Dorn, Earl
Walker, William
Walter, Eugene
Walton Family
Weekes Family
Whiddon, Frederick P.
Williams, Price
Wilmer, Richard Hooker
Wilson, Augusta Evans
Withers, Jones Mitchell
Zadek, Emil Oscad
Zemurray, Samuel
Zoghby, Linda
Zoghby, Mary


MARD GRAS ALPHABETICAL FILE
Cain, Joe
Coronations
Dauphin Island
Design
Emblems
History
Invitations
Kraft, Michael
Miscellaneous
Mobile area Mardi Gras Association, Inc. Mystic Societies:
Belles and Beaux
Conde Cavaliers
Cowbellion de Rankin
Crew of Columbus
Daughters of Venus
Dominoes
Don Donnas
Etruscans
Fifty Funny Fellows
Follies
Forty-Niners
Harlequins
Infant Mystics
Knights of Ebony
Knights of Revelry
Krewe de Bienville
La Luna Servamte
La She
Les Bon Vivantes
Maids of Mirth
Marry Mates
Mystic of Children
Mystics of Time
Mystic Stripers
Nereides
Order of Athena
Order of Dragons
Order of Infant Mystics
Order of Juno
Order of Myths
Order of Polka Dots
Pharaohs
Pierrettes
S.C.S.
Sirens
Spinsters Society
Strikers Independent Society
Thalians Mystic Society
Mardi Gras:
New Orleans
Parades (non-mystic)


MARDI GRAS CHRONOLOGICAL FILES
1854
1884
1869-1871
1872-1873
1874-1875
1876-1878
1879-1880
1881
1882-1883
1885-1886
1895-1897
1898-1914
1903-1907
1911
1915
1916
1918
1923
1924-1939
1946
1947-1948
1949
1950
1951-1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960 and individual files for all following years through 1998


CLIPPINGS FILES, A-Z

Actors
Actresses
Admirals
Advertising
Aero planes
Africa Town
Airports
Al. Deep Sea Fishing
Al. Hall of Fame
Al. Historical Association
Al. Historical Commission
Al. History
Al. Politics and Government
Alabama River
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
Alabama (the ship – 1898)
Alabama (the ship – 1940)
Alabama (Confederate ship, Al. claims)
Al. State Docks (see also Port of Mobile or Waterfronts)
All Saints Episcopal Church
Amateur Theatricals
American Landmark Celebration
America’s Junior Miss Pageant, Inc.
America’s Young Woman of the Year
Anniversaries (see Bicentennial Celebrations)
Alabama Arbitration
Archeology
Architecture
Architecture – Awards (HMPS)
Architecture – Conservation and Restoration
Archives – Mobile
Armies – Mobile Area
Art
Artists (see Manuscript Box #51)
Athelstan Club
Athletics
Authors – 19th Century
Authors – 20th Century
Azalea
Azalea Trail
Baldwin County
Banks and Banking – Early Works to 1900
Banks and Banking -1900 Forward
Baptists
Barton Academy (see also Schools-History)
Barton Centennial, 1936
Baseball
Battle House
Battle of Mobile Bay (see Mobile Bay, Battle of)
Battles (see Maubila and Spanish Fort)
Bay Boats
Bay Shell Road
Bayou La Batre
Bellingrath Gardens
Bells
Benevolent Home
Betty Bienville
Bicentennial Celebration (see also Fort Louis De La Mobile)
Bienville Square
Bienville Square Controversy
Big Zion AME Zion Church
Birdie Mae Davis Case
Birds
Bishop State Community College
Black Churches (see also Big Zion)
Black Schools
Blacks
Blakely (see also Historic Blakely State Park)
Bloodgood Row
Boats and Boating
Bon Secour
Book Industries and Trade (see also Haunted Book Shop)
Books
Bragg-Mitchell House
Bridges
British Faire
Brookley Air Force Base
Brookley Field Complex
Buildings – History (see Historic Buildings)
Business Enterprises
Businessmen
Cahaba
Camellia Ball
Can’t Get Away Club
Carlen House
Cathedral of Immaculate Conception (see Catholic Church Collection Box #52)
Cathedral Square Art District (see Box#52)
Catholic Male and Female Orphan Asylums (see Box #52)
Catholics (see Box #52)
Catholics – Sesquicentennial (see Box #52)
Cawthon House (see Rapelje House)
Cemeteries (see also Church Stree Graveyard & Magnolia Cemetery)
Chamber of Commerce
Chickasabogue
Choctaw Point
Christ Church
Christian Church (see Disciples of Christ)
Christmas
Church History (see als Churches)
Church Schools (see also Convent of Visitation)
Church Street Graveyard
Church Street Graveyard – Catalogs
Churches (see Baptists, Catholics, Disciples of Christ, Episcopalians, Judaism, Lutherans, Methodists, Black Churches, Orthodox Eastern Church, Greek, Presbyterians)
Circus
Cities and Town Planning
Citronelle
City Hall and Southern Market (see also Municipal Government)
City Hospital (see also General Hospital)
Civil War (see Confederate States of America)
Civil War Centennial
Claiborne
Clarke County
Clothilde
Clubs (see also individual clubs)
Coden
Coffeehouses
Collectors and Collecting
Composers
Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate Reunions (see Veterans)
Confederate States of America (see History C.S.of A. 1861-1865)
Convent of the Visitation
Convention Center
Cookery
Copeland Gang
Costume
Cotton Machinery
Cotton Trade
County Government
Courthouses – Mobile
Courthouses–U.S.
Courtaulds
Cox-Deasy House
Creole Fire Company
Creoles
Crichton
Crime and Criminals
Croom, Stephens G. (see Businessmen)
Culture
Customs Administration
Customs House (see Courthouses, U.S.)
Dancing
Daphne
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dauphin Island
De Luna Expedition
Demouy Homestead
Denistry
Diplomatic and Consular Service
Disciples of Christ
Diseases
“Dixie”
Dog River – History
Downtown Redevelopment Commission
Drug Addiction
Dueling
Eastern Shore (see Point Clear)
Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order
Ellicott’s Stone
Emergency Communication System
Entertaining
Episcopalians (see also by individual church names)
Environment
European War, 1914-1918
Exploreum/Imax Theater
Explosion, 1865
Fairhope
Fairs
Festival of Flowers
Fidelia Society
Finance, Public
Fire Department, 1819-1888 (see also Creole and Phoenix Fire Co.)
Fire Department – 1889
Fires
First Lady of the Year
First Night of Mobile
Fisheries
Flags
Floods
Folklore
Food (see Cookery)
Football
Fort Bowyer (see Fort Morgan)
Fort Conde
Fort Cone – Conde House
Fort Gaines
Fort Louis De La Mobile
Fort Louis-Bicentennial Celebration
Fort Mims
Fort Morgan
Fort Powell
Fort Stoddert
Fossils (see Paleontology)
Foundations
Fountains
Fourth of July Celebration
Franklin Society
Frascati
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
Freemasons
French Delegation in Mobile-1937
French in Louisiana
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Funeral Rites and Ceremonies
Furniture Making
Garden District
Gardening – Societies
Gardens
Gas Companies
Gates
Gautier (see Pascagoula)
Genealogy
General Hospital (see City Hospital)
German Relief Association
Ghosts
Gordon, Gavin 1901-1983
Government (see Politics, County G., County G., Municipal, U.S.)
Grand Bay
Grand Hotel
Grant’s Pass
Graveyards (see Cemeteries)
Greek Church (see Orthodox Eastern Church)
Grocery Trade
Guard House
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Handicraft
Hank Arron Stadium (see Baseball)
Hartford (ship)
Haunted Book Shop
Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic Blakely State Park
Historic Buildings
Historic Buildings, Alabama
Historic Buildings Listed by Streets
Historic districts
Historic Houses Listed by Streets
Historic Mobile Preservation Society
HMPS Architectural Awards
HMPS – Archives
HMPS – Historical Markers
Historic Sites
Historic Markers
Historical Research
Historical Societies
History, Local
History, Spanish Exploration
History – French Period
History – Spanish Period
History – English Period
History, U.S. 1814-1861
History, Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
History, Confederate, Army, Firearms, Blockade, Documents, Military
History, Battle of Mobile Bay (see also Battle of)
History, Confederate Navy
History, Confederate, Personal Narratives
History, Confederate, Railroads
History, U.S., 1865-1900
History, U.S., 20th Century
Holidays
Horse Racing
Horticulture
Hospitals (see also by individual name)
Hotels, Taverns, Etc.
Humane Society
Hurricanes
Iberville Historical Society
Indians
Indians – Antiquities
Indians – Trading Posts
Industry
Insurance, Title
Interior Decorators
Interstate I-210
Ironwork
Irvington
Islam
Jails (see Prisons)
Jewelers
Jews
Jubilee
Judaism
Junior League
Keep Mobile Beautiful
Kirkbride (see H.M.S. folder, Buildings-Theatre Street, Original Doc’s file 155)
Kiwanis Club
Ku Klux Klan in Alabama
Land Grants – Spanish
Landmark Hall (see Rapelje)
Lawyers
Leinkauf Historic District
Letters
Letters, Fry-Robinson
Libraries
Lighthouses
Lotteries
Louisiana Purchase
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Lumber
Lutherans
McIntosh
Magnolia Cemetery
Main Street Mobile
Malaga, Spain
Malbis
Manners & Customs
Maps
Marengo County
Marine Biology
Marine Hospital
Masons (see Freemasons)
Maubila, Battle of
Mayors
Medical Association of Alabama
Medical College of Alabama
Medicine
Memorial day, Confederate (see Confederate Memorial Day)
Merchant Marine
Merci Train
Methodists (also see Box #45)
Military Men – Mobile, 1813 –1899
Mississippi Territory
Mobile Arts Council
Mobile Association for Retarded Citizens
Mobile Bar Pilots Association
Mobile Bay
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Mobile Bay Bridge
Mobile Bay (ship) 1987
Mobile Bible Society
Mobile Black Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Botanical Gardens
Mobile Civic Center (see also Mobile Municipal Auditorium)
Mobile College
Mobile Community Foundation
Mobile County
Mobile County Health Department
Mobile County Health Services
Mobile – Description (two folders)
Mobile – Tours
Mobile Downtown Redevelopment Commission
Mobile Government Plaza
Mobile Historic Development Commission
Mobile Historic Homes Tours, Inc.
Mobile Infirmary
Mobile Jaycees
Mobile Medical Society
Mobile Municipal Archives
Mobile Municipal Auditorium
Mobile Press Register
Mobile Public Library
Mobile Revolving Fund
Mobile Rifles
Mobile (ship)
Mobile United
Mobilian of the Year
Money
Mon Louis Island
Monroe Park
Mothers’ Army and Navy League
Mother’s Day
Motor Buses
Mount Vernon
Moving – Picture Industry
Municipal Park
Murphy High School
Museum of the City of Mobile – Records
Museums
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Music
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National Cemeteries
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
Navy
Newspapers
Oak Grove
Oakleigh ( two folders)
Oakleigh garden District
Obituaries (three folders)
Ocean Wave (see Bay Boats)
Octorara (ship)
Odd Fellows Hall
Oil Industries
Old Federal Building
Old Mobile Project
Old Shell Road – History
Old Southern Market
Oneida (ship)
Opera
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Orphans and Orphan Asylums
Orthodox Eastern Church – Greek
Overby (see Photographs, Collections and Collecting)
Pageants
Painters
Paleontology
Paper Making and Trade
Parks
Pascagoula
Penelope House
Phoenix fire Company
Photographs
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Photography
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Point Clear
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Postal Cards
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Printing
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Railroads – History
Rapelje House
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Roads
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
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Saenger Theater
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Selma
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Spanish Plaza
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Theater History 1860-1900
Theater History 1901 –
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Theaters
Toulminville
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United States History – War of 1812
Universities and Colleges
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Waterman Steamship Co.
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Whistler
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Women
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World War, 1939 – 1945
World War I (see European War, 1914 – 1918)
Yachts and Yachting
Yellow Fever
Young Men’s Christian Association
Young Women’s Christian Association
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS NEWSPAPERS
Mobile Commercial Register:
17 December 1821, Vol.I # 2
24 December 1821, Vol. I # 4
31 December 1821, Vol. I # 6 (pages 1 &2)
10 January 1822, Vol. I # 9
14 January 1822, Vol. I # 10
21 January 1822, Vol. I # 12
24 January 1822, Vol. I # 13
28 January 1822, Vol. I # 14
31 January 1822, Vol. I # 15
4 February 1822, Vol. I # 16
7 February 1822, Vol. I # 17
11 February 1822, Vol. I # 18
14 February 1822, Vol. I # 19
21 February 1822, Vol. I # 21
28 February 1822, Vol. I # 23
4 March 1822, Vol. I # 24
7 March 1822, Vol. I # 25
11 March 1822, Vol. I # 26
14 March 1822, Vol. I # 27
18 March 1822, Vol. I # 28
21 March 1822, Vol. I # 29
25 March 1822, Vol. I # 30
28 March 1822, Vol. I # 31
1 April 1822, Vol. I # 32
4 April 1822, Vol. I # 33
8 April 1822, Vol. I # 34
11 April 1822, Vol. I # 35
15 April 1822, Vol. I # 36
18 April 1822, Vol. I # 37
22 April 1822, Vol. I # 38
25 April 1822, Vol. I # 39
29 April 1822, Vol. I # 40
2 May 1822, Vol. I, # 41
6 May 1822, Vol. I # 42
9 May 1822, Vol. I # 43
13 May 1822, Vol. I # 44
16 May 1822, Vol. I # 45
20 May 1822, Vol. I # 46
23 May 1822, Vol. I # 47
27 May 1822, Vol. I # 48
30 May 1822, Vol. I # 49
3 June 1822, Vol. I # 50
10 June 1822, Vol. I # 52
13 June 1822, Vol. I # 53
20 June 1822, Vol. I # 54
27 June 1822, Vol. I # 55
4 July 1822, Vol. I # 56
11 July 1822, Vol. I # 57
18 July 1822, Vol. I # 58
25 July 1822, Vol. I # 59
1 August 1822, Vol. I # 60
8 August 1822, Vol. I 3 61
15 August 1822, Vol. I # 62
22 August 1822, Vol. I # 63
29 August 1822, Vol. I # 64
5 /September 1822, Vol. I # 65
12 September 1822, Vol. I # 66
19 September 1822, Vol. I # 67
26 September 1822, Vol. I # 68
3 October 1822, Vol. I # 69
10 October 1822, Vol. I # 70
17 October 1822, Vol. I # 71
21 October 1822, Vol. I # 72
24 October 1822, Vol. I # 73
21 November 1822, Vol. I #? (last page only)
SCRAPBOOKS
Mobile Lay Diabetic Society, 1968-1976
Camp Seale Harris:
1954-1967
1966-1978
1968-1974
1981-1988
Mobile Medical Society:
1958-1966
1965-1971
Mobile Medical society, Woman’s Auxiliary:
1930-1954
1936-1954
1954-1964
1970-1975
1982-1984
1985-1986
Mobile Yacht Club:
Prior to 1969
1970-1983
Gulf City Gun Club
Gulf City Gun Club, 1881
Historic Mobile Preservation Society:
1935-1939
1939-1940
1948-1951
1950
1952-1953
1953-1955
1955-1958
1958-1960
1961-1962
1962-1963
1963-1964
1964-1965
1965-1966
1966-1967
1967-1968 (Volume 1)
1967-1968 9Volume 2)
1968-1969
1970-1971
1972-1973
1974-1976 (Volume 1)
1974-1976 (Volume 2)
1976-1982
1984-1990
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993-1994

 

HMPS appreciates the

generous support of our

Corporate Partners:

 

AT&T/The Real Yellow Pages

 BLP/Mobile Paints

Farnell Heating & AC

Harrison Brothers

Kimberly-Clark

Peebles & Cameron

Regions Bank

Simply Shutters

TAG/The Architects Group

WKRG/TV5

 

The Oakleigh Historic Museums are open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Daily, Year-Round

 Groups are welcome and special rates apply. Reservations should be made in advance for groups of more than 10. School groups are invited to picnic on the grounds after their tours.

 

HMPS Activities

(Additional activities may be added or events may be cancelled due to weather or lack of participation.)
For info call (251) 432-6161 or

(251) 432-1281

or Email hmps@bellsouth.net

 


February 21, 2008

Voices that Are Gone,

5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

A moving Readers' Theatre using Oakleigh’s Cook’s House to explore and celebrate the experiences of persons of color living in Mobile in the 19th century. Admission: HMPS members, $20; non-members, $25. Admission includes refreshments inspired by traditional African-American recipes.

Call (251) 432-6161 or email hmps@bellsouth.net

for reservations and information.

March 14-15, 2008

Mobile Historic Homes Tour,

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Visit architecturally significant private homes and sacred spaces in selected historic districts.
One-day ticket, $12 to HMPS members, $15 for non-members. Two-day ticket, $20 for HMPS members, $25 for non-members. Groups of 10 or more receive same rate as HMPS members. For information or to order tickets, call 251-432-6161. All ticket purchasers will be entered into a drawing for a cruise and other prizes.


May 2008

National Historic Preservation Month

Many activities throughout the month, TBA.
Special speakers and presentations, children’s activities, a field trip. Mark your calendar for the National Historic Preservation Month Picnic on the lawn of Oakleigh for HMPS member, guests and the public, featuring authentic arts and crafts, preservation salvage materials for sale, antique furniture, decorative arts, cars and more, 1-4 p.m. Picnic admission: HMPS members, FREE, non-member adults, $10, children, $5.
Admission includes picnic lunch and non-alcoholic beverages and free museum and tours.

June 5, 2008

Bravery & Beauty

Mint Julep Party,

5-8 p.m.

A celebration in honor of the June 1877 visit to Oakleigh by  James A. Garfield (later a president of the U.S.) when CSA Gen. T.K. Irwin served him his first mint julep. Garfield's diary entry of that occasion states: “The bravery and beauty of Mobile were there.” HMPS members, $15; general admission, $25 per person and $45 per couple.  No one under age 21 admitted. All guests receive complimentary mint juleps and non-alcoholic juleps. (Cash bar for non-julep specialty beverages.) Silent auction and live music.


YOU can participate in the Barton restoration project...
Blue Roof pins are still on sale at the Oakleigh House Museum Gift Shop.
New Orleans stained glass artist Paulette Lizano has created a unique array of colorful small glass houses with distinctive post-Katrina-blue roofs. Sales of the pins will benefit Historic Mobile Preservation Society’s “Save Barton Academy” efforts. Barton Academy, Alabama’s first public school and a landmark on Mobile’s Government Street since the early 19th century, has been named among the top Places in Peril by the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation and the Alabama Historical Commission.

HMPS is working in cooperation with the Mobile County Public School Commission and local, state and national entities to pursue restoration of this architectural treasure.

Each pin, which can also be worn as a pendant, is available for purchase in the Oakleigh Gift Shop for $20 plus tax. A portion of the purchase is tax-deductible and purchasers will receive confirmation of contribution for tax purposes.

For information, please call Marilyn Culpepper, Executive Director, 251-432-6161 or email hmps@bellsouth.net.

 

Thank you for visiting.

 

Historic Mobile Preservation Society is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation.  It receives principal funding through memberships and fundraising.  HMPS received funding for operations and/or special programs for the 2007 fiscal year from the following entities:

The City of Mobile

The J.L. Bedsole Foundation

The Hearin-Chandler Foundation

The Crampton Trust

The Community Foundation of South Alabama: "Friends of Oakleigh" fund