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Oyster Bay is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. Oyster Bay is located at the mouth of the Bon Secour River into Bon Secour Bay, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Gulf Shores. [3] The Nicholson House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Oyster Bay. [4]
Gulf Shores is located on the Gulf of Mexico, and is the southernmost settlement in the state of Alabama. [2] It is served by Alabama State Route 59 (Gulf Shores Parkway), which leads north to Foley. Route 182 (Beach Boulevard) runs east-west along the shore front, while Route 180 (Fort Morgan Road) runs parallel to it, north of Little Lagoon.
Rawbar Inc., doing business as Acme Oyster House, is a chain of seafood restaurants in the United States, headquartered in Metairie, Louisiana, [1] with the original in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The company's food is served cajun and creole style and it has locations in Florida, Alabama, and formerly Texas. [2]
Gulf State Park is a public recreation area on the Gulf of Mexico in the city of Gulf Shores in southern Baldwin County, Alabama. The state park 's 6,150 acres (2,490 ha) mostly encompass the land behind the Gulf Shores beach community, between Highway 59 and SH 161 , with the west end extending further south to a wide beach area. [ 3 ]
Their joint venture, Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ, opened in February 2017. [1] The restaurant's premises previously belonged to fried chicken restaurant Chick’s Fry House. [7] Scott and the restaurant were featured in the third episode of the Netflix food documentary series Chef's Table BBQ (2020). [8]
Alabama Welcome sign on the Alabama-Florida border on SR 182 in Orange Beach. SR 182 begins at a private resort in Pine Beach. [2] From this point, the route travels in an easterly course paralleling the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico through both Gulf Shores and Orange Beach en route to its eastern terminus at the Florida state line. [3]
Rodney Walker (1910–1986) was a midcentury American modern designer and builder who specialized in residential architecture in the Southern California area. He contributed three designs to Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study House program during the late 1940s (Case Study House #16, #17, and #18). [ 1 ]
The Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo started as the private project of Robin Willis and Joey Ward of Gulf Shores, and opened in June 1989 as Zooland Animal Park. The Ward family created the Zoo Foundation Inc. (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) in 1991 to operate the zoo, at the same time donating the 17 acres (6.9 ha) that make up the zoo today.