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Cathedral Square, Mobile, Alabama

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The area that is now Cathedral Square quickly became a commercial block filled with buildings after the relocation of the cemetery. The buildings were then demolished in 1979 to create a public park facing the cathedral. The current park layout was implemented in 1996.
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cemetery, the Campo Santo. The Campo Santo was roughly 400 feet (120 m) long by 300 feet (91 m) wide and filled portions of what are now several city blocks between Joachim, Dauphin, Franklin, and Conti Streets. Most of the burials were moved to the new
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Colonial Mobile An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee Basin from the Discovery of Mobile Bay in 1519 Until the Demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821
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expanded. A few graves continued to be accidentally unearthed along Conti Street as late as the 1890s, however.
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At one time what is now Cathedral Square was part of Mobile's 18th century
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The park features a layout that mirrors the neighboring
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Mobile, Alabama
Coordinates
30°41′25″N 88°02′42″W / 30.690384°N 88.045091°W / 30.690384; -88.045091
city block
City of Mobile
Mobile, Alabama
Catholic
Church Street Graveyard
city boundary
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
nave
semicircular
colonnade
apse
"Main Street Mobile"
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City of Mobile
History
Timeline
Formation
Battle of Fort Charlotte
Civil War era
Battle of Mobile Bay
Battle of Spanish Fort
Clotilda
Magazine explosion

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