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Mobile Botanical Gardens is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and funding is mainly through contributions, grants, plant sales, and membership dues. It is open year-round from dawn to dusk. Admission is $5 for adults, children 12 and under are free.
Around Town Mobile Carnival Museum. Sure, you know that Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in America, but there’s so much more to learn, and class is in session at the Mobile Carnival Museum.
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic city cemetery located in Mobile, Alabama. Filled with many elaborate Victorian-era monuments, it spans more than 100 acres (40 ha). [3] It served as Mobile's primary, and almost exclusive, burial place during the 19th century. [3] It is the final resting place for many of Mobile's 19th- and early 20th-century ...
Langan Park, also known as Municipal Park, is a 720-acre (291 ha) municipal park in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, US. [1] The park opened in 1957 and was named for Joseph N. Langan, a former Mobile mayor, state senator and city commissioner.
Mobile's population had increased from around 40,000 people in 1900 to 60,000 by 1920. [6] Between 1940 and 1943, over 89,000 people moved into Mobile to work for war effort industries. [7] By 1956 the city limits had tripled to accommodate growth. The city lost many of its historic buildings during urban renewal in the 1960s and 1970s. This ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Mobile County, Alabama" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Oakleigh is a c. 1833 historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States.It is the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. [2]
Mobile National Cemetery was established in 1865, when Union troops occupied the city of Mobile after the Battle of Mobile Bay, during the Civil War. [4] Initially, casualties of the battle were interred in a section of the city owned Magnolia Cemetery, but they quickly had a need for more space and a plot of 3 acres (1.2 ha) was granted to the Army by the city in 1866. [4]