About Chickasaw, Alabama

Chickasaw is a city of 6,457 people in Mobile County, where Chickasaw Creek meets the north end of Mobile Bay. It takes its name from the Chickasaws, who still lived in southwestern Alabama in the early nineteenth century. The city began as a company town. When World War I started, the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company bought this ground for a shipyard, the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car Company, and laid out a mill town for its workers with its own water and sewer lines. The war ended before the yard reached full strength, so after a few ships many workers lost their jobs and left, and the town stayed far smaller than planned.

In April 1939, with another war coming, a local businessman bought the yard and the town and sold them to Gulf Shipbuilding, part of the Waterman Steamship Company. Gulf reopened the yard and built around 75 ships for the Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission, evicting some longtime residents to house new workers. When the war ended the yard closed again. The Leedy Investment Company then bought the whole town and put its houses up for sale, and some former residents came back to buy them. Chickasaw incorporated as a city in 1946.

  • A free speech case in 1943In 1943, while Gulf Shipbuilding still owned the town, Grace Marsh and other Jehovah's Witnesses handed out literature in Chickasaw's business district. Because the streets were company property, they were arrested again and again for trespassing, and the local and lower courts upheld their convictions. In 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned them in Marsh v. Alabama, ruling that Chickasaw worked like any other town, so the guarantee of free speech still applied there.
  • A new city hall in 1953When Chickasaw incorporated in 1946, the new city government set up its offices in a building that was already standing. It built its own city hall in 1953, and during the 1960s the city added several regulatory agencies and boards.
  • Curtain up since 1963The Chickasaw Civic Theatre was founded in 1963, and it puts on a number of plays every year for audiences from the city and around it.
  • Its own schools in 2013Chickasaw voted in 2012 to leave the Mobile County school system and start its own district, and the split took effect in 2013. The change came after county officials talked about closing the two magnet schools in the city.
  • Dr. Hook's hometownRay Sawyer was born in Chickasaw in 1937. He later went by "Dr. Hook" as a member of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.

Find your street

Names on the Chickasaw map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks5

  • Chickasaw City Hall
  • North Mobile
  • Norwood
  • Chickasabogue Park
  • Mauvilla Forest Estates

Streets and roads104

  • North Craft Highway
  • Telegraph Road
  • Third Avenue
  • Howell Street
  • West Lee Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Fox Street
  • Johnston Street
  • Jefferson Street
  • Viaduct Road
  • Lee Street
  • South Mauvilla Drive
  • Twelfth Street
  • Hillside Drive
  • North Mauvilla Drive
  • Townsend Circle
  • West Grant Street
  • Sutherland Drive
  • Twelfth Avenue
  • Iroquois Street
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Kansas Street
  • Grand Boulevard
  • Thompson Boulevard
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Myrtlewood Avenue
  • Jacona Street
  • Hopi Street
  • Geronimo Street
  • Alpine Street
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  • Ninth Avenue
  • Baratara Drive
  • Grant Street
  • Tenth Avenue
  • Eighth Avenue
  • South Craft Highway
  • Second Street
  • Sixth Avenue
  • Valley Road
  • Fifth Street
  • Eleventh Avenue
  • Southwest Boulevard
  • Forest Street
  • Idlewood Drive
  • Southern Street
  • Viaduct Road West
  • Gulf Street
  • Erie Street
  • Autumndale Drive
  • Pelham Street
  • Third Street
  • Jackson Street
  • Delaware Street
  • Court Street
  • Spruce Drive
  • Cache Circle
  • Elizabeth Avenue
  • First Street
  • Seventh Street
  • Yeend Avenue
  • Ridgeview Drive
  • Commanche Street
  • Margaret Avenue
  • Sixth Street
  • Bellwood Lane
  • Blackfoot Street
  • Woodlore Drive
  • Lanier Street
  • Garden Lane
  • Callahan Drive
  • University Drive
  • Canal Street
  • Offutt Court
  • O'Neal Lane
  • Saraland Boulevard South
  • Gulf Street Alley
  • Dillon Avenue
  • West Valley Road
  • East Baratara Drive
  • West Baratara Drive
  • Masterson Avenue
  • Northwest Boulevard
  • Short Street
  • Willow Drive
  • Lange Drive
  • First Avenue
  • Grand Street
  • Vale Street
  • Ryan Street
  • Pine Street
  • Third Place
  • Oak Street
  • Fifth Place
  • Dumont Street
  • Edinborough Avenue
  • Azalea Drive
  • Diamond Street
  • South Valley Road
  • Bass Court
  • First Place
  • Autumndale Circle
  • Camelia Street
  • Hardwood Lane
  • Bell Court

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