Mobile and Baldwin County News
The 2011 Mobile Historic Homes Tour invited visitors to explore some of the city’s most distinguished residences and sacred spaces along Government Street, one of Mobile’s most celebrated and historically…
Mobile native Scott O. Brown, a comics industry veteran with more than a decade of experience as a writer, letterer, publisher, editor and production manager, is turning his hometown’s rich…
Few dishes are as tied to Mobile’s table as West Indies Salad, and no name is more tied to the dish than William “Bill” Bayley. The restaurateur is credited with…
A ghost story gets a new exhibit The historic Malaga Inn in downtown Mobile has long been the subject of haunting tales, and a locally filmed video has given ghost…
A new self-published book is putting names, dates and old family recipes to the restaurants that shaped how Mobile ate over the past century and a half. “Old Mobile Restaurants,”…
Long before coffee shops became a fixture of nearly every American downtown, Mobile had one that locals considered without equal: Festorazzis Coffee Saloon, a Royal Street institution that opened in…
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…
Beneath the moss-draped oaks of Church Street Cemetery in downtown Mobile lies the grave of Miguel Eslava, a Spanish colonial official who served as royal treasurer under the king of…
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 downtown Mobile fixture since 1889, Demeranville Florist shut its doors on Memorial Day, ending a family business that began on Bienville Square and outlasted three centuries of the city's…