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3,829
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$73,553
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America/Chicago
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Grand Bay, AL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Grand Bay a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Grand Bay Home page. The Grand Bay Home page provides as much information as possible on Grand Bay. Knowing Grand Bay’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Grand Bay’s Home page, you will also find Grand Bay’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Grand Bay has a population of 3829. 49% of Grand Bay’s inhabitants are Male, and 51 are female. 55.7% of Grand Bay is married and 86.9% own their own home. Household median income in Grand Bay is $73,553, and the individual median income is $37,800. Grand Bay’s Ethnic is the following: White(93.7%), Black(6.2%), Hispanic(1.9%), Multiple(0.1%).
According to local accounts, George Cassibry was the first white person to settle in Grand Bay. He came to the area in 1853, establishing a home site near the headwaters of Franklin Creek located today near the intersection of Highway 90 and Ramsey Road. Exploration and settlement of the area was well underway by the mid-nineteenth century.During the Civil War, the town saw brief military action as a column of troops under U.S.
General Gordon Granger reached the town as a preliminary move in the siege of Mobile. In 1870 the U.S. Postal Service established a post office at a location near the center of the current community.Settlement began in earnest when the Grand Bay Land Company began offering ten-acre lots for sale in the early 1900s.
The lots were marketed to people living in and around Chicago and other northern cities as a way to live self-sufficiently in a mild climate. Supposedly, ten acres planted in pecan and satsuma trees would be enough to supply the needs of anyone. The timber industry also attracted many to the area. Much of the region south of Grand Bay to the coast along the Mississippi Sound was clearcut.For a time, the town flourished.
A weekly newspaper was published there, and telegraph service was offered to the region through an operator at Grand Bay. The town had a number of businesses including a hotel, drug store, several general merchandise stores and a bank. However, hurricanes in 1906 and 1910, along with a severe freeze, sent many scurrying back north.
Their efforts, however, have not gone unnoticed even today. Cogon grass, a highly-invasive rhizome, first introduced to the area as packing material in satsuma trees imported from Asia, has now become a serious Southeastern agricultural problem.In 1993, the old Grand Bay State Bank building became the temporary site of the El Cazador Museum, and held treasure from the El Cazador.
The area in and around the old bank building now forms the Grand Bay Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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