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 (14796217563)

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Title: 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
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hamilton, Peter J. (Peter Joseph), 1859-1927
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Hougthon Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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BOUT 1820) THE END OF FORT CHARLOTTE. 479 The troops evacuated Fort Charlotte, and everything was pre-pared for the sale of the land. As provided by the act, Silas Dins-more, United States deputy surveyor, was directed to plat it intosquares, conforming as nearly as practicable to the general city plan.Dinsmore was, as we have seen, a man of marked individuality ^and made a plat more according to what he thought the city planshould be than what it was; for the streets were not continuationsof those existing, and the lots were only thirty French feet wide. The sale was held in October, 1820, and, while there were afew other buyers, the great bulk of the property went to a syn-dicate, who organized themselves into the Mobile Lot Company.They had the property re-platted by Thomas Hubbard, the CitySurveyor, to conform to adjacent streets, and this plan remains.^ In the new district added to the town, as in the old, the Creolehouse type prevailed, — a wooden frame filled in with plaster,