Thursday, March 10, 2016

#92 ORLEANS DRIVE
named for Phillipe, the Duke of Orleans, nephew of Louis XIV and Regent of France when the fort at Mobile was enlarged and named Fort Conde. Orleans Drive is southwest of the 3-way stop. It is the first south turn off of Bienville Boulevard after Salt Creek. Wikipedia link for Phillipe II, the Duke of Orleans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_II,_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans 
Findagrave link for Phillipe II, the Duke of Orleans http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49908276

#93 OSPREY LANE
named for the sea bird that is often seen in the skies and on the beaches of Dauphin Island.

#94 PASCAGOULA STREET
named for the Pascagoula Indian tribe who were known as "bread eaters" and whose villages were on the Singing River and Pascagoula Bay where now stands the cities of Pascagoula and Moss Point, Mississippi.

#95 PELICAN STREET
named for both the great fishing bird of the Gulf area and for the ship "Pelican" which brought twenty-four carefully selected young ladies to Mobile to marry men in the colony who had no homes of their own.

#96 PENALVER STREET
named for Bishop Louis Penalver y Cardenas, the first bishop of the new diocese set up in 1795 in the provinces of Louisiana and Florida.

#97 PENICAULT STREET (Pen-e-co)
named for Penicault, a young Frenchman who roamed French Louisiana in the early days, a ship-carpenter by trade, probably the first Mobile history writer and as such a valuable informer regarding life in the new colony.

#98 PENSACOLA STREET
named for Pensacola which was established by the Spanish expedition at about the time d'Iberville first landed on Dauphin Island in 1699.

#99 PEQUENO STREET (pronounced Pe-cane-yo)
named fro on of the early Spanish settlers.

#100 PERDIDO STREET
named for Perdido Bay, the boundary between Spanish Florida and French Louisiana established in earliest colonial days.

#101 PIRATES COVE STREET
named for the pirates of LaFitte who gave valuable aid to General Andrew Jackson in his campaign in the Gulf area.

#102 PONCE DE LEON COURT
named for Ponce de Leon, the Spanish discoverer of Florida who believed that the "fountain of youth" existed in this part of the World.

#103 PONCHARTRAIN COURT
named for Monsier Ponchartrain, the French Minister of Marine, who authorized the establishment of Fort Louis de la Mobile as the capital of French Louisiana.

#104 PORTIER COURT (pronounced Porteer)
named for Reverend Michael Portier, the first Catholic Bishop in Mobile, who founded Spring Hill College in 1830.

#105 PORT ROYAL STREET
named for the Federal ship of eight guns, the "Port Royal," which was a member of the fleet that attacked Fort Morgan and Mobile Bay at the close of the Civil War.

#106 PRESIDENT JEFFERSON COURT
named for President Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and who successfully claimed that the Louisiana Purchase included the Gulf Coast from the Mississippi River eastward to the Perdido River.

#107 PUSHMATAHA COURT (pronounced Push-ma-ta-ha)
named for Pushmataha, most famous of the Choctaw chiefs, given the rank of general of the U.S. Army as a result of the services rendered by his Indians during the War of 1812.

#108 QUEBEC COURT
named for Quebec, the first permanent French colony in America, northern anchor (Mobile being the southern anchor) for the chain of settlements the French laid around the English colonies hoping to force the English off this continent.

#109 RAPHAEL SEMMES STREET
named for Admiral Raphael Semmes, a resident of Mobile who as a leader in the Confederacy was the only man in the Civil War to hold the rank of both admiral and general.

#110 RYAN COURT
named for Father Abram J. Ryan, pastor of St. Mary's Church, the leading literary figure in Mobile in the years before the Civil War, and "poet priest of the Confederacy."

#111 SAINT ANDREW COURT
named for Saint Andrew, one of the twelve apostles and patron saint of Scotland; and for the French ship, Le St. Andre which brought a cargo of food and one hundred German families to the Louisiana Province during the administration of Bienville as Governor General.

#112 SAINT DENIS COURT
named for Louis Juchereau, Sieur de St. Denis, one of the most successful traders in the Mobile colony, sent by Cadillac to trade with the Spanish colonies of the New World. As one-time commandant of Isle Dauphine, he successfully defended the Island against an attack from a Spanish expedition. On one of his missions into Spanish territory he was captured but fell in love with a Spanish girl, who he later married and moved to Mobile.

#113 SERIGNY STREET (pronounced Se-reen-ye)
named for Joseph LeMoyne, Sieur de Serigny, brother of Bienville who came to the Mobile colony in 1719 and contributed much by making accurate charts of Mobile Bay, the lower Mississippi River, and other waters along the Gulf Coast.

#114 TENNESSEE STREET
named for the "Tennessee," pride of the Confederate fleet, which single-handedly attacked the entire Federal fleet in the second conflict of the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.

#115 TOMBIGBEE STREET
named for the great river which flows through east Mississippi and west Alabama and joins with the Alabama and joins with the Alabama River to form the Mobile River. This combined waterway is the second largest navigable water system on the North American Continent.

#116 TONTY STREET
named for General Henri de Tonty, LaSalle's deputy commander and only close friend, who joined Bienville's group after LaSalle's death at which time he earned the name of Hook Hand from the Indians who feared his wrath and who knew him by an iron hook which he wore as a substitute for a lost hand. Many think that General Tonty is buried at Twenty-Seven Mile Bluff where Mobile was first built and where a giant rayon manufacturing plant is now operating.

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