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Tag: Infant Mystics

History A historic brick building with restoration scaffolding in a downtown setting

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

James Bullard, January 15, 2015

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.

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Baldwin County A Mardi Gras parade float lit up at night

Mother of Mystics: Why Mobile’s True Golden Age Ran From 1880 to 1914

James Bullard, February 6, 2005

A Point Clear lawyer and self-described jackleg historian argues Mobile’s golden age belongs to its mystic societies, dating it precisely from the last great New Year’s parade in 1881 to the First World War.

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