Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of Mobile County history from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
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…
University of South Alabama archaeologists and volunteers continue carefully excavating the original 1702 Mobile colony site along the Mobile River, uncovering artifacts left behind when the settlement moved downriver nine…
The Archdiocese of Mobile will close St. Joseph Catholic Church, a downtown parish dating to 1857, in January 2018, folding its members into the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception amid…
A look back at how Mobile built a cruise industry partnership with Carnival, from a 2001 test run to a full-time home port.
Hundreds gathered in downtown Prichard for a Juneteenth celebration filled with gospel music, family heirlooms and reflection on history.
Mobile County probate records show several free Black residents petitioned local judges to become enslaved amid rising hostility before the Civil War.
A forgotten cemetery on the grounds of the former Searcy Hospital in Mount Vernon holds hundreds of unnamed graves and almost no surviving records.
A 94-year-old Mobile man and Pearl Harbor survivor shares his memories of the 1941 attack that changed his life and pulled America into World War II.
Southern Living is asking readers to help identify a Mobile home and garden that appeared on the magazine's very first cover back in 1966.
The owner of Kushla's Magee Farm, one of only three Civil War surrender sites still standing, is selling its antiques after years of financial strain.