Mobile County AlArchives History .....Mobile County 1888
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XIII.
MOBILE COUNTY

  Population: White. 27,500; colored, 21,000. Area, 1,290 square miles.
Woodland, all, except coast marshes; rolling pine lands, 820 square miles; pine
flats, 470 square miles.

  Acres—In cotton, approximately, 10; in corn, 1,639: in oats, 139; in rice,
191; in sugar-cane, 151; in sweet potatoes, 776.

  County Seat—Mobile; population, 32,000; located on Mobile River, near its
entrance into Mobile Bay.

  Newspapers published at County Seat—Register, Blade, Christian Weekly, Item
and Sunday Times, Democratic.

  Postoffices in the County—Bayou, Labatre, Chickasabogue, Chunchula,
Citronelle, Coden, Cox, Creola, Grand Bay, Mobile, Mount Vernon, Nanna, Hubba,
Prichard, Saint Elmo, Spring Hill, Theodore, Venetia, Whistler.

  Mobile was established in 1813, and named for the bay whose waters wash its
eastern shores. It lies in the extreme southwest corner of the State, and is the
wealtiest, most populous, and one of the largest counties of the Commonwealth.

  The educational advantages of Mobile have been proverbially excellent for
almost a half century. The city takes great pride in the maintenance of her
famous institution of learning—the Barton Academy. The Medical College of
Alabama is located here. As a point of refuge from the chill and blast of a
Northern clime. Mobile is without a rival. Generally, the winters are
exceedingly mild and but rarely at all harsh. It is delightful as a place of
residence even in midsummer. The cool breezes from the sea sweep it continually
and fan away the scorching heat of summer tide. Dotting the coasts of the Bay,
opposite the city, are magnificent hotels which have become famous as summer
resorts.

  The timbers of the county include the oak, hickory, elm, magnolia, bay,
cypress, sweet and sour gums, and yellow pine. The water outlets are furnished
by the Mobile River and Bayou the one side, and the Escatawpa River on the
other. Beautiful streams of perpetual flow ramify different portions of the county.

  The natural, social, and commercial advantages possessed by Mobile indicate it
as one of the coming cities of the South.

  Mobile County contains 97,000 acres of land belonging to the Government.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
TIMBER BELT.


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