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This funky restaurant and bar is a newer addition to downtown’s growing food scene, and you can try out its inventive menu at brunch, lunch, or dinner. Dinner Date Noja
The 120,000 square foot museum, located on the riverfront in downtown Mobile, Alabama, is designed to look as if it were a ship headed into Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The museum features 90 interactive exhibits, simulators, theaters and artifact displays, complemented by artifacts and memorabilia displayed throughout "multiple decks ...
Covering 766 acres (3.10 km 2) and containing 1466 contributing buildings, Old Dauphin Way is the largest historic district in Mobile. Although most of the district contains working-class frame houses, large and ornate mansions are found along the main thoroughfares. The contributing buildings range in age from the mid-19th to the early 20th ...
Mobile (/ m oʊ ˈ b iː l / moh-BEEL, French: ⓘ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census. [8] [9] After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobile's population increased to 204,689 residents, making it the fourth-most populous city in Alabama, after Montgomery, Birmingham, and ...
The Oakdale Historic District is a historic district in Mobile, Alabama.Oakdale is located south of downtown, and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It consists of 511 acres (207 ha) and about 1200 buildings, most of which are middle-class one- and two-story houses.
Located at the junction of the Mobile River and Mobile Bay on the northern Gulf of Mexico, Mobile began as the first capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702 and remained a part of New France for over 60 years. [3] The city was ceded to Great Britain in 1763, and under British rule the colony continued as part of West Florida.
Bienville Square is a historic city park in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. Bienville Square was named for Mobile's founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. [1] It takes up the entire block bordered by the streets of Dauphin, Saint Joseph, Saint Francis, and North Conception.
It was the first hotel in Mobile to provide air conditioning and telephones in every guest room and featured a coffee shop, a drug store, cocktail lounge and a National Airlines office. In the 1950s, a motel wing was added across the street, the Admiral Semmes Motor Hotel. [ 4 ]