155 South Water Street
Mobile, AL 36602
Phone: 251.436.8901
E-mail: gqinfo@cityofmobile.org
SKYSCRAPERS
Skyscrapers are tall buildings today, but in the 1840s they were extra sails set on the loftiest masts of "clipper" ships and other fast vessels. Such "moonsails" and "skysails" increased speed, and they seemed to touch the sky.