19th Century Spring Hill Neighborhood TR, Historic district in Spring Hill, Mobile, United States.
The 19th Century Spring Hill Neighborhood is a National Register multiple property submission covering eight buildings in Mobile, Alabama, all built in the mid-19th century. They are the most intact survivors from the years when Spring Hill was a separate summer retreat town on the western hills outside Mobile, later absorbed by the city.
The eight properties in this multiple property submission were all built in the mid-19th century. They are the most intact survivors from the years when Spring Hill was a summer retreat town for wealthy Mobilians escaping the heat and yellow fever epidemics of the city. The area, once the western hills outside Mobile, was gradually absorbed by the larger city.
Spring Hill was a summer retreat town for wealthy Mobilians escaping the heat and yellow fever epidemics of Mobile. The eight surviving mid-19th-century buildings are the most intact remains of that independent community, later absorbed by the growing city.
The eight properties are scattered through Spring Hill, west of downtown Mobile, so plan to move between separate sites rather than along one street. Little survives from the neighborhood's days as an independent summer retreat, so expect individual buildings set within a later, larger city.
The submission groups eight mid-19th-century properties in Spring Hill, once a summer retreat town on the western hills outside Mobile where wealthy families escaped heat and yellow fever epidemics. Most of that independent community has since been absorbed by the city, leaving these buildings as the most intact survivors of the period.
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