Mobile, Alabama was actually founded by Roman Catholics from France in 1702 which was years before New Orleans was founded. The first Mardi Gras celebration was held in 1704 to celebrate Fat Tuesday (as previously stated). The groups of people that run the parades and make the floats are called krewes or societies. They are still around today and...
The City of Foley's founder and namesake John B. Foley originally purchased 50,000 acres of land in 1902 to expand the railroad in the area. He became an instrumental part in the creation of an efficient railway system that would be used to transport both people and produce or other merchandise. The first train station was completed in 1909 and...
There were many early inhabitants and settlers of the land now known as Daphne, Alabama. The earliest people were the tribes of Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole natives. They worked in small groups and were hunter-gatherers that used the Daphne land as a neutral meeting ground. In later years around 1557, settlers from England, France, and Spain...
Killing two birds with one stone here (oh wait. Excuse me, PETA, I meant feeding two birds with one scone.) and including two towns a once because these two don't have museums like the others, so I had to use other resources.
Fairhope has a group of twenty-eight founders, nine of which were children. Fairhope was to be founded as a single-tax colony meaning that the people would own the land, lease it to someone else, and then that person would pay a single property tax on the land. Many of the founders, as they were a mixture of single-taxers, populists,...
Baldwin County itself is 10 years older than the state of Alabama. The county was a part of the Mississippi territory until 1817 when Mississippi became state number 20. After that, it became part of the Alabama territory until 1819 when Alabama became the 22nd state.