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.
Tucked near Fort Conde in downtown Mobile, the Conde-Charlotte Museum House stands as one of the city’s most layered historic properties, with a past that stretches from the colonial era…
Miguel Eslava served as royal treasurer and customs collector in Spanish colonial Mobile in the late 1700s and early 1800s, and his family's name still marks streets, a creek, and…
A 2010 WKRG report documented oil globs coating parts of Dauphin Island as the Gulf spill response continued.
A 2010 WKRG report said tar balls believed connected to the Gulf oil spill began washing ashore on Dauphin Island.
A new local history book, Mobile Bay: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, has arrived at Bienville Books and other outlets, offering readers a wide-ranging look at the estuary that shapes life…
A carefully sourced look at Saint-Domingue, the Haitian Revolution, French refugee ties to Alabama and what the record does—and does not—show about Mobile.
A newly published book, “Alabama History on the Air,” is bringing a forgotten piece of Mobile broadcasting history back into print, drawing on more than five dozen radio scripts that…
A 2009 WKRG report examined the command-center and search-and-rescue work of Coast Guard Sector Mobile.
A 2009 WKRG report explored Coast Guard pilot training at Mobile's Aviation Training Center.
A 2009 WKRG report described the Coast Guard's Sector Mobile role in maintaining buoys and other navigation aids.