Of all the mistakes made by the Dauphin Island street names nomenclature committee, their explanation for the historical significance for the naming of GENERAL GAINES PLACE is probably the worst! ( Corrections to the original text will follow.) from S. Blake McNeely's THE DEVELOPMENT OF DAUPHIN ISLAND (1974)
"named for General George S. Gaines who operated a large Trading House at St. Stephens, an important outpost in the young United States, while Mobile was still held by the Spanish during the early days on the nineteenth century. As a trader, General Gaines was one of the first business men to see the need of the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway as he in 1810 was barging supplies down the Ohio River from Pittsburg, then up the Tennessee River to Calbert's [sic-ed. note: Colbert's] Ferry from where his goods were carried overland to the Tombigbee River and then barged on downstream to St. Stephens. "

(ed. note: The biographical information on George S. Gaines is correct, however, Gaines was never a general. That achievement goes to his brother, General Edmund Pendleton Gaines )
This east to west dead end street begins where its west end intersects with General Gorgas Drive. https://dauphinislandhistory.blogspot.com/2012/06/image-courtesy-of-alabama-department-of.html