Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . ureof its industries. These were still colonial in the sense of beingconfined to handling raw material, such as cotton and afterwardlumber. The seal of the city rightly adopted as a motto Agri-culture and Commerce. Manufactures existed to some extent,but did not flourish. Much of what was needed was imported. Nevertheless Mobile was an active commercial point, withpeople of ene
Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . ureof its industries. These were still colonial in the sense of beingconfined to handling raw material, such as cotton and afterwardlumber. The seal of the city rightly adopted as a motto Agri-culture and Commerce. Manufactures existed to some extent,but did not flourish. Much of what was needed was imported. Nevertheless Mobile was an active commercial point, withpeople of energy and culture, to which its New England immi-grants contributed no little. The original site of Mobile, bounded by streets with Frenchnames, remained a Cite Carre; but new districts were to beadded, and the first was this Fort Charlotte property. Not onlydid business gain by extension of the river front, but much ofthe social and civic life centred in the old esplanade. Just as the building of the market had determined the loca-tion of the first wharf at the foot of Dauphin Street, and led tothe reclamation of the river shallows out to a river channelfixed by law, through extension north and south of Water and. THE END OF FORT CHARLOTTE. 481 Commerce also, so tlie re-platting of the Fort Charlotte prop-erty determined that the streets for several blocks below shouldrun parallel to Government, and not, as in Mathews fancifulplat of 1818, into Government at an angle from the southeast. And yet platting streets through the Vauban walls was notaltogether the same as opening them, and the new city discussedseveral plans before the actual demolition was was needed to blow down this solid masonry ofMobile brick and oyster-shell lime; and to fill up the newstreets the debris was used, instead of the sand which had beenindustriously hauled before. From time to time in 1821-23,we find amounts expended by the city for pulling down thefort walls that were in the st
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