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Mobile in the Gilded Age
**Mobile in the Gilded Age** refers to the history of Mobile, Alabama during the late 19th century (roughly 1870s–1900), a period when the city struggled to recover from the Civil War while gradually rebuilding its economy. Despite the broader era's national industrial boom, Mobile grew more slowly than other Southern cities, relying heavily on its port, cotton and lumber exports, and expanding ra