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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.
The Lost Cause Minstrels were founded in 1867 in Mobile. The Order of Myths, Mobile's oldest continuously parading mystic society was founded in 1867 and held its first parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868. [4] The Infant Mystics also begin to parade on Mardi Gras night in 1868, but later moved its parade to Lundi Gras (Fat Monday). [4]
Mobile Carnival Museum The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years [ 1 ] of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama . [ 2 ] The museum is housed in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street in downtown Mobile.
The first North American Mardi Gras was celebrated in Alabama—not Louisiana. French-Canadian explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville arrived in what is now modern day Mobile, Alabama on Fat ...
The history of Mardi Gras and its customs is a much bigger story than you may think. ... The Big Easy is almost synonymous with Mardi Gras, but some claim that Mobile, Alabama, hosted the first ...
The Mardi Gras style parades, most agree, began in Mobile. The Cowbellian deRakin Society in 1830 spontaneously marched down the streets of Mobile making noise with cowbells and rakes, which gave ...
Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a sedate French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, [3] Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Knights of Revelry parade down Royal Street in Mobile during the 2010 Mardi Gras season. In 1723, the capital of Louisiana was moved to New Orleans, founded in 1718. [33] The first Mardi Gras parade held in New Orleans is recorded to have taken place in 1833 with Bernard de Marigny funding the first organized parade, tableau, and ball. The ...