Now that the LITTLE RED SCHOOLHOUSE project has broken ground, it's time for the DAUPHIN ISLAND HISTORY BLOG to advocate that the new museum include two exhibits:
1st: The construction of a geographical model that prominently features the Sand Island Lighthouse, Pelican Island, Cedar Point, Mobile Point and Dauphin Island. We feel that this geographic exhibit is of major importance because not only does it emphasize Dauphin Island's strategic importance but it also promotes the preservation of one of our most important landmarks: THE SAND ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE (this exhibit could also include graphic photographs of old lighthouses that have collapsed due to neglect)
2nd: The painting of scenes along the crown molding of the building which illustrate the incredible history of Dauphin Island. In the interest of inspiring artists to design this mural, we have broken down D.I. history into 12 periods which highlight the events that have taken place on and around Dauphin Island: AMERICA'S MOST HISTORIC ISLAND. (future updates on the D.I. History Blog will be dedicated to describing the major events which occurred during the TWELVE AGES OF DAUPHIN ISLAND HISTORY) http://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com
Age Number 1 (Chapter 1): Prehistoric Dauphin Island (this includes the island's transformation into being the most prominent landmark on European maps of the Northern Gulf Near the Mouth of the Mississippi River during almost 200 years of failed attempts at colonization. Exhibits pertaining to prehistoric D.I. should include the use of marine shells as tools and ceremonial vessels by American Indians, the significance of the shell mounds and important D.I. artifacts such as the crawfish effigy displayed at the University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum http://www.southalabama.edu/org/archaeology/museum/index.html )
HIGHLIGHTS:
I. Pineda voyage of 1519 (2019 will mark the 500th anniversary of Pineda's arrival in Mobile Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_%C3%81lvarez_de_Pineda
II. Narvaez Expedition 1528 (Cabeza de Vaca, a survivor of this expedition, financed his journey to Mexico City by trading seashells with the Indians of the interior of the Gulf Coast.https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/coast/nature/images/shell-tools.html ) "In this wilderness I became a trader, and went to and fro on the coast and a little inland. I went inland with seashells and cockles, and a certain shell used to cut beans, which the natives value. I came out with hides, and red ochre for the face and hair, flint for arrow points, and tassels of deerhide. I came to be well known among the tribes, and found out the lay of the land." ~ Cabeza de Vaca
III. DeSoto Expedition 1535 (legend has it that Maldonado brought DeSoto's wife, Isabella, to Dauphin Island to wait for the arrival of her husband. The original place name for the location of the D.I. airport is ISABELLA POINT)
IV. Guido de las Bazares Expedition of 1558 ( On September 3, 1558, Bazares left San Juan de Lua (Vera Cruz) with sixty seamen and soldiers in a large bark, a galley, and a shallop. They mapped the northern Gulf Coast and Bazares description of what he called "Filipina Bay" may have been Mobile Bay and his maps would be used the next year by the colonization expedition of Tristan de Luna)
V. Tristan De Luna Colonization Attempt in the summer of 1559 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano
Dauphin Island Street Names associated with AGE #1: Deluna Street, DeSoto Avenue, DeSoto Drive, Maldonado Place, Mauvilla Place, Narvaez Street, Ponce de Leon Court, Tristan Court, Pineda Street.
Age Number 2 (Chapter 2): Cradle of the French Colony, 1699-1729 ~ This 30 year period begins with the arrival of Iberville in January of 1699 and ends with the disastrous Natchez Revolt of 1729. After this conflict, control of the colony was permanently returned to the King of France.
HIGHLIGHTS OF AGE #2:
I. LaSalle's Discovery of the Mississippi and His Attempt to Establish A Colony on the Gulf: 1670-1687
II. Iberville's Expedition To Secure the Mississippi River for France: 1699 (Iberville landed on Dauphin Island but did not discover the channel leading into Pelican Bay, thus depriving the early colonists of this important anchorage)
III. The Establishment of Massacre Island in 1702 as the Port of Call for the new French capitol of Louisiana at 27 Mile Bluff on the Mobile River. The King has a warehouse built on Massacre Island to store goods destined for the interior.
IV.
Age Number 3 (Chapter 3): French-Indian Trade Port of Call, 1729-1763
Age Number 4 (Chapter 4): British Dauphin Island, 1763-1780
Age Number 5 (Chapter 5): Spanish Outpost and Pilot House, 1780-1813
Age Number 6 (Chapter 6): A Leading Port of The Cotton Kingdom, 1813-1865
Age Number 7 (Chapter 7): An Occupying Army's Base of Operations and Fishing Village, 1865-1898
Age Number 8 (Chapter 8): Island's Fortifications Strengthened, 1898-1918
Age Number 9 (Chapter 9): The Roaring Twenties, Great Depression & WWII, 1918-1945
Age Number 10 (Chapter 10): The Development of Dauphin Island Real Estate, 1945-1979
Age Number 11 (Chapter 11): Disaster Recovery and Natural Gas Drilling, 1979-2005
Age Number 12 (Chapter 12): Post-Katrina, BP and The Future, 2005- (until)
1st: The construction of a geographical model that prominently features the Sand Island Lighthouse, Pelican Island, Cedar Point, Mobile Point and Dauphin Island. We feel that this geographic exhibit is of major importance because not only does it emphasize Dauphin Island's strategic importance but it also promotes the preservation of one of our most important landmarks: THE SAND ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE (this exhibit could also include graphic photographs of old lighthouses that have collapsed due to neglect)
2nd: The painting of scenes along the crown molding of the building which illustrate the incredible history of Dauphin Island. In the interest of inspiring artists to design this mural, we have broken down D.I. history into 12 periods which highlight the events that have taken place on and around Dauphin Island: AMERICA'S MOST HISTORIC ISLAND. (future updates on the D.I. History Blog will be dedicated to describing the major events which occurred during the TWELVE AGES OF DAUPHIN ISLAND HISTORY) http://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com
Age Number 1 (Chapter 1): Prehistoric Dauphin Island (this includes the island's transformation into being the most prominent landmark on European maps of the Northern Gulf Near the Mouth of the Mississippi River during almost 200 years of failed attempts at colonization. Exhibits pertaining to prehistoric D.I. should include the use of marine shells as tools and ceremonial vessels by American Indians, the significance of the shell mounds and important D.I. artifacts such as the crawfish effigy displayed at the University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum http://www.southalabama.edu/org/archaeology/museum/index.html )
HIGHLIGHTS:
I. Pineda voyage of 1519 (2019 will mark the 500th anniversary of Pineda's arrival in Mobile Bay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_%C3%81lvarez_de_Pineda
II. Narvaez Expedition 1528 (Cabeza de Vaca, a survivor of this expedition, financed his journey to Mexico City by trading seashells with the Indians of the interior of the Gulf Coast.https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/coast/nature/images/shell-tools.html ) "In this wilderness I became a trader, and went to and fro on the coast and a little inland. I went inland with seashells and cockles, and a certain shell used to cut beans, which the natives value. I came out with hides, and red ochre for the face and hair, flint for arrow points, and tassels of deerhide. I came to be well known among the tribes, and found out the lay of the land." ~ Cabeza de Vaca
III. DeSoto Expedition 1535 (legend has it that Maldonado brought DeSoto's wife, Isabella, to Dauphin Island to wait for the arrival of her husband. The original place name for the location of the D.I. airport is ISABELLA POINT)
IV. Guido de las Bazares Expedition of 1558 ( On September 3, 1558, Bazares left San Juan de Lua (Vera Cruz) with sixty seamen and soldiers in a large bark, a galley, and a shallop. They mapped the northern Gulf Coast and Bazares description of what he called "Filipina Bay" may have been Mobile Bay and his maps would be used the next year by the colonization expedition of Tristan de Luna)
V. Tristan De Luna Colonization Attempt in the summer of 1559 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano
Dauphin Island Street Names associated with AGE #1: Deluna Street, DeSoto Avenue, DeSoto Drive, Maldonado Place, Mauvilla Place, Narvaez Street, Ponce de Leon Court, Tristan Court, Pineda Street.
Age Number 2 (Chapter 2): Cradle of the French Colony, 1699-1729 ~ This 30 year period begins with the arrival of Iberville in January of 1699 and ends with the disastrous Natchez Revolt of 1729. After this conflict, control of the colony was permanently returned to the King of France.
HIGHLIGHTS OF AGE #2:
I. LaSalle's Discovery of the Mississippi and His Attempt to Establish A Colony on the Gulf: 1670-1687
II. Iberville's Expedition To Secure the Mississippi River for France: 1699 (Iberville landed on Dauphin Island but did not discover the channel leading into Pelican Bay, thus depriving the early colonists of this important anchorage)
III. The Establishment of Massacre Island in 1702 as the Port of Call for the new French capitol of Louisiana at 27 Mile Bluff on the Mobile River. The King has a warehouse built on Massacre Island to store goods destined for the interior.
IV.
Age Number 3 (Chapter 3): French-Indian Trade Port of Call, 1729-1763
Age Number 4 (Chapter 4): British Dauphin Island, 1763-1780
Age Number 5 (Chapter 5): Spanish Outpost and Pilot House, 1780-1813
Age Number 6 (Chapter 6): A Leading Port of The Cotton Kingdom, 1813-1865
Age Number 7 (Chapter 7): An Occupying Army's Base of Operations and Fishing Village, 1865-1898
Age Number 8 (Chapter 8): Island's Fortifications Strengthened, 1898-1918
Age Number 9 (Chapter 9): The Roaring Twenties, Great Depression & WWII, 1918-1945
Age Number 10 (Chapter 10): The Development of Dauphin Island Real Estate, 1945-1979
Age Number 11 (Chapter 11): Disaster Recovery and Natural Gas Drilling, 1979-2005
Age Number 12 (Chapter 12): Post-Katrina, BP and The Future, 2005- (until)
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