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Illustration for the news story: Historic Mobile Orphanage to Become ‘Cotton Hall’ Mardi Gras Lodge

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Historic Mobile Orphanage to Become ‘Cotton Hall’ Mardi Gras Lodge

One of Mobile's oldest Mardi Gras societies plans to restore the 1845 Protestant Children's Home downtown into a new meeting lodge called Cotton Hall.

Jan 15, 2015 Mobile