Fort Morgan (3) 

 1833; partially restored; 

 installation prominent in 

 Bay in 1864; owned by the 

 and open to the public. 



major mil i tary 

 Battle of Mobile 

 State of Alabama 



At entrance 

 Point 



to Mobile Bay at Mobile 



Montrose Historic District (1) 

 Mid-19th century; Greek Revival influ- 

 ences; this collection of 27 Creole 

 cottages shows the Greek Revival influ- 

 ence. 



Sand Island Light (3) 

 1873; infl uenced by Italianate style; 

 the 132 ft (40 m) tall conical 

 masonry tower is the older of two re- 

 maining lighthouses in the state. 



Main and Second Streets, Montrose 



Mouth 

 south 



of Mobile 

 of Mobile 



Bay, 3 

 Point 



mi (5 km) 



U.S.S. Tecumseh (3) 



225 ft (69 m) long 

 of four Union ironclad 

 Tecumseh struck a marine 



Aug. 5, 1864; 

 ironclad; one 

 monitors, the 

 mine and sank 

 Bay and is in 

 servation 



Under 30 ft (9 m) of water in 

 Mobile Bay north of Fort Morgan 



during the Battle of Mobile 

 an excellent state of pre- 

 underwater. 



'Quad sheets 



(1) Bay Minette 



(2) Atmore 



(3) Biloxi. 



ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES 



The Alabama coast is believed to have been inhabited as early as 10,000 

 B.C., although no sites dating to this period, the Paleo-Indian stage, have 

 been discovered as yet in this region. The earliest datable artifacts in Ala- 

 bama's coastal plain can be assigned to the Early Archaic Period, ranging 

 from 8000 to 6000 B.C. (Walthall 1980). Sites known in Baldwin and Mobile 

 Counties date from the Late Archaic period, (1000 B.C.) through the Historic 

 Period (post 1500). By 1979, 196 archaeological sites had been located in 

 Baldwin County, while 36 sites had been recorded in Mobile County (U.S. Army 

 Corps of Engineers 1981). It is estimated that there may be as many as 2,000 

 significant archaeological sites in Mobile and Baldwin Counties (Alabama 

 Coastal Area Board 1978). 



Most of the prehistoric sites in Mobile and Baldwin Counties are shell 

 mounds and middens, ceremonial and burial mounds, and villages representing 

 Late Archaic, Woodland, and Mi ssissi ppian Periods of cultural development 

 (1000 B.C.-A.D. 1500). The Late Archaic Period is characterized by the 

 appearance of shell mounds and rings and the introduction of ceramics. The 

 shell mounds indicate seasonal habitation of base camps, the population of 

 which relied on the availability of shellfish. This pattern of subsistence 

 was more sedentary than that suggested by the material culture of previous 



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