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State, county offices closing in Mobile, Baldwin counties for Confederate Memorial Day

April 26, 2010

Garbage will get picked up in Mobile, and city buses will run. County Health Department offices and clinics will be open, a spokesman said. Mobile County public schools will also be open. View full size (Wikipedia Commons) Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama commemorates the …

Many offices will close for Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday in Alabama

April 25, 2010

Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday in Alabama, will be observed Monday. It commemorates the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Union Gen. William Sherman on April 26, 1865. Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday in Alabama, will be observed Monday. …

Spanish Fort park director offers to save Confederate landmark by moving it

February 9, 2010

The director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort has offered to pay to relocate the financially troubled Magee farmhouse in an effort to preserve the 19th century landmark. View full size (Press-Register/John David Mercer) Ken McGhee curator of the historic Magee Farm site, “The Last Appomattox”…