Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Alabama history from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Generations of Africatown residents have battled cancer and industrial pollution from neighboring paper mills, leading to a decades-long legal fight against International Paper that ended in a confidential settlement in…
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…
As Alabama marked its 200th year of statehood, local historians point back to Mobile's outsized role in the events of 1817-1819 that split the old Mississippi Territory and created the…
Drums and traditional dance filled Calcedeaver Elementary School on Friday as the Mount Vernon school hosted its 18th annual Culture Fest, celebrating the heritage of the MOWA Choctaw Indians. The…
Bay Minette resident Dr. Don Salls, the oldest living University of Alabama football alumnus, turned 100 on June 24, prompting a birthday celebration at the Paul W. Bryant Museum honoring…
MOBILE — Nearly 160 years after the Clotilda sank in the Mobile River, the remains of the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States have been found…
Alabama officials have confirmed that a wreck found in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans into the United States, a discovery that…
MOBILE, Ala. — Bellingrath Gardens is a treasure in Mobile, a jewel that Hurricane Frederic nearly stole from the community. On the evening of Sept. 12, 1979, Category 4 Hurricane…
State archaeologists have confirmed that a shipwreck lying in the Mobile River is the Clotilda, the last known vessel to bring enslaved Africans to the United States. The Alabama Historical…