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.
The Tristan de Luna Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution marked its 75th anniversary with a gift to local history: a historic marker honoring the Spanish…
A ferry that carries drivers across the Alabama River in Wilcox County has earned a place in the transportation record books. The Gee’s Bend ferry is now the first all-electric…
A 50th-anniversary piano competition, a University of Mobile lecture by historian Wayne Flynt marking Alabama's bicentennial, and newly announced winners of Mobile Opera's Madame Rose Scholarship Competition highlight a busy…
A University of South Alabama archaeologist will discuss the excavation of a 1,400-year-old Native American canoe canal discovered on the Fort Morgan Peninsula near Gulf Shores.
A Mobile artist has left a lasting mark at Clark-Shaw Magnet School with a mural celebrating 200 years of Alabama history, turning an ordinary entrance wall into a panoramic lesson…
A Mobile street vendor known as the Peanut Guy has built a loyal following at Cottage Hill and Demetropolis for his boiled Valencia peanuts, a Southern roadside tradition with roots…
The Mobile Sunrise Rotary Club marked World Polio Day with a club meeting recalling Alabama's 1941 polio outbreak and Rotary's decades-long campaign that has helped vaccinate more than 2.5 billion…
The Alabama Historical Commission is launching a Phase I sonar survey of the Mobile River to inventory shipwrecks and submerged cultural sites, work that could also help locate the long-sought…
A team of maritime archaeologists working with the Alabama Historical Commission has determined that a large wooden wreck found in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta is not the Clotilda, even as the…
Africatown community leaders and researchers from the Smithsonian, National Park Service and Alabama Historical Commission announced an investigation into a shipwreck that may be the Clotilda, the last known slave…