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Bienville Cross, Bienville Square

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Stock #: 165752
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Mobile
State: Alabama (AL)
County: Mobile
Publisher: Carter News Agency
Postmark: 1954 May-04
PM City: Mobile
PM State: Al
Stamp: 4C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Series 101
This public park in the center of the business section was set aside for park purposes when the city of Mobile was chartered by the first Alabama State Legislature more than a hundred years ago. A granite cross erected by the Colonial Dames of Alabama near Dauphin Street bears the inscription: "To Jean Baptiste La money, Sieur de Bienville. Native of Montreal, Canada. Naval Office of France, Governor of Louisiana and founder of its first capital, Mobile, 1711.

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