Mobile Docks
8"x 16" Edition of
200
One
of the livliest and most colorful areas on the entire Gulf Coast
was the Mobile Docks at the mouth of the Alabama-Tombigbee river
system. Since colonial days, the port of Mobile had been the
major outlet for the state of Alabama's exports, as cotton,
lumber, and food commodities crowded the wharves, being
transported from riverboats to sailing schooners by scores of
mule-drawn carts and wagons. By the turn of the century,
expanding port activity began to threaten continued use of
traditional means of transportation around the wharves. Following
the establishment of the State Docks in the 1920's, steamboats,
schooners, and mules gradually began to be replaced by modern
ships and cranes, and yet another era of port history drew to a
close.
*This information was obtained from The Museum of the City of
Mobile, courtesy of Mr. Caldwell Delaney.
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