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The Greater Gulf State Fair began as a fund-raising initiative for the Mobile Jaycees, a group of members of the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce. [1] It was first held at Blakeley Island in 1955 [2] and drew 60,000 people in its inaugural year. [3]
Mobile Carnival poster from 1900. Floats lining up for an Order of Inca parade in 2007. Mardi Gras is the annual Carnival celebration in Mobile, Alabama.It is the oldest official Carnival celebration in the United States, started by Frenchman Nicholas Langlois in 1703 when Mobile was the capital of Louisiana.
A promotion sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce was added in 1958: a pamphlet listed commercial promotions as Special Days, Weeks and Months, and remained in future editions. [3] Contemporary Books in Chicago, Illinois, took over publication in 1983 and the Chases retired in 1987 from compiling the calendar, which is now handled by an in ...
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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 ...
Mobile Gazette newspaper begins publication. [4] 1814 - Town of Mobile incorporated. 1819 - City of Mobile incorporated. [1] 1821 - Mobile Commercial Register begins publication. 1823 - Christ Church Cathedral established. [1] 1827 - Fire. [5] 1829 - Mobile Female Benevolent Society founded. [6] 1830 Spring Hill College and City Hospital [1] [6 ...
Cain's Merry Widows paying a visit to Joe Cain's house on Augusta Street in 2007. The Mardi Gras mystic society of Cain's Merry Widows (a women's mystic society) was founded in 1974 in Mobile, Alabama, home of the first Mardi Gras in America (1703).
Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr. was born on October 10, 1832, along Dauphin Street in Mobile, Alabama. [1] He married Elizabeth Alabama Rabby. He helped to organize the T.D.S. (Tea Drinker's Society), [2] one of Mobile's mystic societies, in 1846; however, their banquets were part of Mobile's New Year's Eve celebrations, rather than being held on Mardi Gras day. [1]