Stedmans Landing Stedman's Landing Established in 1852 and used as a community wharf until destroyed by the 1916 hurricane. The Wharf was an important factor in the life of the Montrose community. Located in an inward curve of Mobile Bay, the warf was quite long because it had to reach the natural deep water traveled by bay boats along the Eastern Shore, The wharf began at the foot of Sibly Street in Montrose Alabama, where the bluff was about 50 feet high requiring a gradual slope downward. The slope allowed the freight car to go down the wharf by its own momentum on wooden tracks. This was a flat car for general use with portable sides used for certain commodities such as pottery. The return trip up the wharf with loaded cart was pulled by mule or ox. lumis

3D Mobile Bay Fairhope Not 3D or Computer 3D Graphics Just a long Exposure on a Pier in Fairhope AL Calm Mobile Bay with late night Fog along the shore of Fairhope Alabama taken New years eve 2005 looking down the shore of Mobile Bay towards the Fairhope Legion and Orange ST. Pier lumis

Fairhope Legion pier Night Picture of the Fairhope Legion Pier after Hurricane Katrina showing the shore line of the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay along Fairhope lumis

Bird Fishing Fairhope Public Beach this bird held very still for me for this long exposure lumis

Fairhope Beach at night lumis

Ghost Pier Fairhope lumis

Mobile Bay Fairhope public Beach lumis

Fairhope Sunrise beaches fairhope, AL lumis

Fairhope Beach Locals lumis

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Fairhope AL Beach at night The Fairhope Public beach at night long exposure lumis

Legion pier Fairhope lumis

Artesian Well Montrose when i was a kid this used to be just a round brick structure that the Artisan Well water would come from. i would walk on the beach from my house in Fairhope all the time to this well in Montrose, i guess they have upgraded the well. lumis

Fairhope Jubilee we got a few blue crabs and made a nice crab omelet lumis

Fairhope Birdhouse sunset one of many Bird houses lining Mobile Bay along the shore in Fairhope Al lumis

lounge room Chairs from the grand Ballroom in the Grand Hotel in Point Clear Alabama found on the beach after Hurricane Katrina many miles up the bay lumis

beach foot prints footprints on the beach in Montrose near Fairhope Alabama lumis

Smores at sunset Fairhope yacht club On the beach in Fairhope Al at sunset lumis

Mobile Bay Jelly fish Picture on the beach in Montrose Alabama lumis

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Beach at Fairhope yacht club After my Wedding Rehearsal at the Fairhope yacht club Fairhope Alabama lumis

Old Pottery on the beach lumis