Mobile in Alabama
Friday, 3 July 2015 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika General
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Downtown Mobile © Altairisfar
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Mobile is the county seat of
Mobile County ,
Alabama . The population within the city limits was 195,000 as of 2010, making it the third most populous city in the State of Alabama, the most populous in Mobile County, and the largest municipality on the
Gulf Coast between
New Orleans, Louisiana , and
St. Petersburg, Florida . Alabama’s only saltwater port, Mobile is located at the head of the
Mobile Bay and the north-central Gulf Coast. The
Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city beginning with the city as a key trading center between the French and Native Americans down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.
Mobile began as the first capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation of West Florida under President James Madison . In 1861 Alabama joined the Confederate States of America , which surrendered in 1865. As one of the Gulf Coast’s cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, a professional opera, a professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture. Mobile is known for having the oldest organized Carnival celebrations in the United States. The festival began to be celebrated in the first decade of the 18th century by its first French Catholic colonial settlers. Mobile was host to the first formally organized Carnival mystic society , known elsewhere as a krewe , to celebrate with a parade in the United States, beginning in 1830. In 2005 the first integrated mystic society had a parade for Mardi Gras .
Tudor Revivial-style house in the Ashland Place Historic District © Altairisfar
Battleship Memorial Park is a military park on the shore of Mobile Bay and features the World War II era battleship
USS Alabama , the World War II era submarine
USS Drum ,
Korean War and
Vietnam War Memorials, and a variety of historical military equipment. The
Bragg-Mitchell Mansion (1855),
Richards DAR House (1860), and the
Condé-Charlotte House (1822) are historic, furnished antebellum house museums.
Fort Morgan (1819),
Fort Gaines (1821), and
Historic Blakeley State Park all figure predominantly in local
American Civil War history.
Mobile has antebellum architectural examples of
Greek Revival ,
Gothic Revival ,
Italianate , and
Creole cottage . Later architectural styles found in the city include the various
Victorian types ,
shotgun types ,
Colonial Revival ,
Tudor Revival ,
Spanish Colonial Revival ,
Beaux-Arts and many others. The city currently has nine major historic districts:
Old Dauphin Way ,
Oakleigh Garden ,
Lower Dauphin Street ,
Leinkauf ,
De Tonti Square ,
Church Street East ,
Ashland Place ,
Campground , and
Midtown .
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Mobile ,
Mobile Bay ,
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park ,
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