Toulminville: The Suburb That Got Swallowed

Toulminville began as a settlement on land owned by Harry Theophilus Toulmin, who served as Sheriff of Mobile County in the eighteen thirties. The community that grew up around his property developed along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad northwest of Mobile, and by the Civil War era it was significant enough to appear on military maps. By the time of the Second World War Toulminville had become a prosperous upper-middle-class suburb, with shaded streets and churches along Stanton and Summerville roads.

Then, in nineteen forty-five, the city of Mobile conducted the annexation that tripled its corporate limits. Toulminville was absorbed entirely. It is now a neighborhood, historically significant, locally known, but no longer its own place.