Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County,Alabama,United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census,and was estimated to be 183,289 in 2022.
Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama,on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico,along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census,the population was 231,767,making it the fourth-most populous county in Alabama. The county seat is Bay Minette. The county is named after the founder of the University of Georgia,Senator Abraham Baldwin.
Washington County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census,the population was 15,388. The county seat is Chatom. The county was named in honor of George Washington,the first President of the United States. In September 2018 The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) added Washington County to the Mobile,Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also part of the larger Mobile-Daphne-Fairhope,AL Combined Statistical Area.
Daphne is a city in Baldwin County,Alabama,United States,on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. The city is located along I-10,11 miles east of Mobile and 170 miles southwest of the state capital of Montgomery. The 2010 United States Census lists the population of the city as 21,570,making Daphne the most populous city in Baldwin County. It is a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area,which includes all of Baldwin County.
Fairhope is a city in Baldwin County,Alabama,United States,located on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. The population was 22,477 at the 2020 census. Fairhope is a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area,which includes all of Baldwin County.
Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County,in west-central Alabama. The population was 7,162 at the 2020 census.
Magnolia Springs is a town in south Baldwin County,Alabama,United States,in the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area. The town voted to incorporate in 2006. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 723.
Richard Henderson was an American jurist,land speculator and politician who was best known for attempting to create the Transylvania Colony in frontier Kentucky. Henderson County and its seat Henderson,Kentucky are named for him. He also sold land to an early settlement that went on to become Nashville,Tennessee.
In the U.S. state of Maine,a plantation is a type of minor civil division falling between unincorporated area and a town. The term,as used in this sense in modern times,appears to be exclusive to Maine. Plantations are typically found in sparsely populated areas.
Eastern Shore Centre is a 540,000-square-foot (50,000 m2) lifestyle center located at the intersection of Malbis Parkway and Interstate 10 in Spanish Fort,Alabama,United States,a suburb of Mobile. A landscaped perimeter road,Eastern Shore Boulevard,connects the lifestyle and power center components of this hybrid regional center. An apartment community,The Arlington at Eastern Shore Centre,was developed in the northeastern section of the complex. Eastern Shore Centre is Baldwin County's first large-scale,multi-anchored regional shopping center and the first lifestyle center to open in South Alabama.
Interstate 10 (I-10) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Santa Monica,California,to Jacksonville,Florida. In Alabama,the Interstate Highway runs 66.269 miles (106.650 km) from the Mississippi state line near Grand Bay east to the Florida state line at the Perdido River. I-10 is the primary east–west highway of the Gulf Coast region of Alabama. The highway connects Mobile,the largest city in South Alabama,with Pascagoula,Mississippi,to the west and Pensacola,Florida,to the east. Within the state,the highway connects Mobile and Mobile County with the Baldwin County communities of Daphne and Fairhope. I-10 connects Mobile and Baldwin County by crossing the northern end of Mobile Bay and the southern end of the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta via the George Wallace Tunnel in Mobile and the Jubilee Parkway viaduct system between Mobile and Daphne.
Blakeley is a ghost town in Baldwin County,Alabama,United States. During the height of its existence,Blakeley was a thriving town which flourished as a competitor to its western neighbor,Mobile. Blakeley was the county seat for Baldwin County from 1820 until 1868,when the county government was moved south to Daphne. It was the location of a major fort during the Civil War. One of the last battles of the Civil War was fought here in April 1865,as Union soldiers overran Confederates. The town is now in an Alabama historic state park known as Historic Blakeley State Park,north of Spanish Fort.
State Route 181 is a 18.235-mile-long (29.346 km) route in Baldwin County in the southwestern part of the state. The southern terminus of the route is at its junction with US 98 near Magnolia Springs. The northern terminus of the route is at its junction with US 31,near Spanish Fort.
WAVH is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Daphne,Alabama,and serving the Mobile metropolitan area. The station airs a talk radio format and is owned by Bigler Broadcasting,LLC. The studios and offices are located at 900 Western America Circle Suite #106 Interstate 65/Airport Boulevard interchange in Mobile.
Africatown,also known as AfricaTown USA and Plateau,is a historic community located three miles (5 km) north of downtown Mobile,Alabama. It was formed by a group of 32 West Africans,who in 1860 were bought and transported against their will in the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States. The Atlantic slave trade had been banned since 1808,but 110 slaves held by the Kingdom of Dahomey were smuggled into Mobile on the Clotilda,which was burned and scuttled to try to conceal its illicit cargo. More than 30 of these people,believed to be ethnic Yoruba,Ewe,and Fon,founded and created their own community in what became Africatown. They retained their West African customs and language into the 1950s,while their children and some elders also learned English. Cudjo Kazoola Lewis,a founder of Africatown,lived until 1935 and was long thought to be the last survivor of the slaves from the Clotilda living in Africatown.
Bermuda Hill,also known as the Liver House,is a historic plantation house in Hale County,Alabama,near Prairieville,Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 7,1994,as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.
The Alfred Hatch Place at Arcola,also known as the Arcola Plantation and locally as the Half-house,is a historic plantation house and historic district on the Black Warrior River several miles northwest of Gallion,Alabama.
Carpenter's Station is a community located in Baldwin County,Alabama. It appears as "Carpenter" on the Bay Minette South U.S. Geological Survey Map.
Malbis Memorial Church,formally the Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of the Presentation of Theotokos,is a Greek Orthodox Church located in Malbis,Baldwin County,Alabama. One of roughly six Greek Orthodox churches in the state of Alabama,it is not a part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America,but is instead directly under the authority of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is known for its intricate and extensive mosaics and paintings. The church was officially dedicated on January 3,1965,and the opening service for the church was conducted by Archbishop Iakovos of America. It has never had an active congregation,but religious observances,special services,and events,such as weddings,do take place. It was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on November 30,1977. The Malbis Plantation Historic District,which includes the church,was designated by the Alabama Historical Commission in 2008,a year that also saw the death of the last of Malbis Plantation's original Greek settlers.
Alabama Creoles are a Louisiana French group native to the region around Mobile,Alabama. They are the descendants of colonial French and Spanish settlers who arrived in Mobile in the 18th century. They are sometimes known as Cajans or Cajuns although they are distinct from the Cajuns of southern Louisiana,and most do not trace their roots to the French settlers of Acadia.
