Mobile and Baldwin County News
Clotilda: The Exhibition at Africatown Heritage House remains open Tuesdays through Saturdays, offering visitors a close look at the history of the Clotilda and the Africatown community it helped create.
National Lighthouse Day spotlights four historic Gulf Coast beacons -- Sand Island, Mobile Point, Middle Bay and Pensacola lighthouses -- and the preservation efforts keeping them standing.
A deep dive into the century-old Fairhope Hotel's journey from an 1908 innkeeping legacy through decades of change to Shelley Springer's $1 million restoration and reopening.
Crews are midway through a $1.2 million restoration of the Middle Bay Lighthouse, a Mobile Bay landmark that has stood since 1885, in what officials call the largest repair project…
The History Museum of Mobile has announced that Clotilda: The Exhibition will open to the public on July 8 at the newly constructed Africatown Heritage House — a date chosen…
Construction bids have gone out for the $600,000 Africatown Heritage House, a museum building near Mobile's Clotilda discovery site, with History Museum of Mobile Director Meg Fowler detailing plans for…
National attention returns to one of Mobile’s most storied historic sites this weekend, as the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” prepares to air a segment on the schooner Clotilda — the…
MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama is moving forward with plans to study and recover artifacts from the submerged wreck of the Clotilda, the last slave ship known to have landed on…
The Alabama Historical Commission will begin a new $1 million phase of Clotilda preservation work this fall, combining artifact excavation with environmental and engineering studies of the wreck site near…
Mobile author Mary S. Palmer’s latest book, “Boyington Oak, A Grave Injustice,” revisits one of the city’s oldest unsolved questions. In 1834, Charles Boyington was hanged for the murder of…