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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. 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 second-most populous city in Alabama, after Huntsville.
The Midtown Historic District is a historic district in the city of Mobile, Alabama, United States.It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 2001, with a small boundary increase on November 18, 2020 It is roughly bounded by Taylor Avenue, Government Street, Houston Street, Kenneth Street, Springhill Avenue, and Florida Street.
16 feet (5 m) Depth of tunnel below water level. 40 feet (12 m) (from surface to top of tunnel) The George Wallace Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels that carry Interstate 10 through Mobile, Alabama from the city's downtown, going beneath the Mobile River, and emerging on Blakeley Island where they join the Jubilee Parkway over Mobile Bay. [1]
Africatown, also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau, is a historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile, Alabama. It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans, who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States.
History of Alabama. 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] In 1763, Britain took control of the colony following their victory in the Seven Years ...
The Maysville Historic District is a historic district in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The district covers 451 acres (183 ha) and contains 1121 properties located southwest of downtown and directly south of the Leinkauf Historic District. Platted in 1871 in the midst of a recession in Mobile, the neighborhood did not begin to develop until ...
The Oakleigh Garden Historic District is a historic district in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 13 April 1972. [1] It is centered on Washington Square and was originally bounded by Government, Marine, Texas, and Ann Streets. [2] A boundary increase on 30 January 1991 increased the ...
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006.