Port Dauphin (1MB221), Mobile County, Alabama

Part of: Colonial Mobile Archaeology: French, British, Spanish, and Early American Colonization on the North-Central Gulf of Mexico Coast

Site Name Keywords
Port Dauphin • 1MB221

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Settlements • Domestic Structures • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Non-Domestic Structures • Ball Court • Structure • Historic Structure • Archaeological Feature

Other Keywords
Glass Beads • French Colonial Beads • French Colonial Wineglasses • French Colonial Ceramics

Culture Keywords
Historic • Euroamerican • Historic Native American • French Colonial • Colonial Era • French Colonial Period

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Glass • Building Materials

Temporal Keywords
HISTORIC CONTEXT • Colonial Period

Geographic Keywords
Mobile County (County) • MOBILE BAY • Gulf of Mexico • Dauphin Island

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  • Port Dauphin (1MB221), Mobile County, Alabama.
    PROJECT George W. Shorter, Jr.. Gregory Waselkov.

    Port Dauphin, on Dauphin Island, served throughout the early years of French colonial settlement on the Gulf coast as a support facility to the main settlements upriver, the town sites of Mobile -- first at Old Mobile, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River from 1702 to 1711, and then at the city's modern location at the head of Mobile Bay and the mouth of the Mobile River. The historian Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz referred to Mobile as the birthplace of the French colony of Louisiane...

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