LINKS of INTEREST of
COLONIALS
on THE COAST
of THE GULF of MEXICO
EXPLORATION
Prince Madoc arrives in the New World (legend)
Windows
to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest
Information, opinions and questions on the journey of Alvaro
Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca to the Southwest
The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza De Vaca (1542)
Florida History
The voyages of Hernando de Soto and the Native Americans living
in the southeastern United States at the time
The Hernando de Soto Expedition
The text of Albert James Pickett's History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi (1851) is being placed online. So far just a few chapters -- including one chapter about De Soto's trek through the area and two of which pertain to colonial Mobile- with more to come! Click on the link to go to the book.
Hernando de Soto's Route through Alabama
Voyages, Samuel de Champlain (1604)
Robert
de La Salle: Historical facts
Not directly in Alabama, of course, but affecting
The La Salle
Shipwreck Project
Archaeological investigation of the shipwreck of the Belle, La Salle's
ship on his last voyage
Jacques
Marquette and Louis Joliet
Important facts and information the Mississippi and the explorers
Not directly in Alabama, of course, but affecting
Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville
"What
Bartram Saw"
chapter from Peter J. Hamilton's COLONIAL MOBILE
COLONIZATION
From the Library of Virginia (Map -- viewer required):
Louis Hennepin. "Carte
de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane Nouvellement découverte."
In Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement découverte au Sud'Oüest
de la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1683
1718 De Lisle Map of Louisiana
Center for Regional Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University
Pensacola, 300 Years 1698-1998
Colonial
Louisiana History and Genealogy
A Timeline of French Colonization
Fort
Condé
150 South Royal Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602, (334) 434-7304, FAX
(334) 434-7659, 1-800-252-3862.
Fort Condé, Mobile's official Visitor Welcome Center, provides maps,
brochures and other information and is a pickup point for local tour services
by bus and horse & carriage.
Old
Mobile Archaeology Site
You may view artifacts from the first French colony.
Plus more!
Pelican
List
List of Girls and Families Who Left from Paris and Rochefort
for Fort Louis in La Louisiane
The Pelican Girls (aka The Cassette Girls)
Marriages
of the Pelican Girls
Names and genealogies of the Cassette Girls--"Pelican Girls"
who came to Mobile
as brides for the French Marines in 1704.
The
Talon family.
The youngest, Robert Talon, who was born aboard LaSalle's ship,
is considered Mobile's 1st Creole. LaSalle was his godfather.
A Colonial French Boy's Story: The Tale of Louis de Lantagnac
Memoirs
or A Quick Glance
At My Various Travels and my Sojourn in the Creek Nation: LeClerc Milfort
Marquis
de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America,
December 1750
Fort Gaines: Where Time Spans Three Centuries
Coastal Fortification on the Gulf of Mexico
TRADE
The
Scottish Traders
from the Apalachicola, FL site. About Alexander McGillivray
and the Panton, Leslie & Company
Panton,
Leslie & Co.
Brief Description of the trading company
Fort Toulouse-Jackson Hosts French and Indian War Encampment
Cherokee
Trade, Southern Indians, and Spanish-American Tension
in the Old Southwest 1792-93
Surveying the Mississippi Territory
The First Survey Through
Hal's Lake Swamp in 1809 Under the Treaty of Mt. Dexter
EARLY SETTLEMENTS & FORTS
American Settlement In Spanish Florida
Surveying the Mississippi Territory
The First Survey Through
Hal's Lake Swamp in 1809 Under the Treaty of Mt. Dexter
Vine & Olive Colony French Settlement in AL
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