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Bienville Square

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $13.95

Stock #:775212
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Mobile
State: Alabama (AL)
County: Mobile
Publisher: E.C. Kropp Co.
Postmark: 1951 Dec-15
Postmark City: Independence
Postmark State: MO
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
Bienville Square was named for Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, who founded the city at its present site. In the square is a monument to his memory erected by the Colonial Dames in 1906, in the form of an immense granite cross. The center of the square is ornamented with a fountain, the gift of the late Dr. Ketchum, who established. Mobile's waterworks system.

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