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Visit Mobile joins our community in celebrating Mobile City Council’s approval of the fundamental agreements needed to restore Amtrak service between Mobile and New Orleans.

We sincerely thank all

The City of Mobile has earned inclusion in the highly prestigious Condé Nast Traveler 2024 Readers’ Choice Awards survey. The 37th iteration of the survey allows readers to vote for their most loved

The Africatown Heritage House has earned national recognition as one of USA TODAY’s “2024 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award” for Best New Museum, as chosen by readers and website visitors.

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This New Museum Honors the 110 People on Board

The Clotilda, the last known U.S. slave ship, arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860 with 110 enslaved people. Travel journalist Natalie Preddie visits and

Venture down to the Gulf Coast for a vacation that’s steeped in solemn, critically important history. This summer, Mobile’s Africatown Heritage House is opening a new exhibit about the Clotilda, the

On July 8, 1860, shipbuilder William Foster brought 110 men, women, and children stolen from West Africa into Mobile Bay, in Alabama, more than 50 years after slavery was abolished in America.

Tickets to Site That Shares the Stories of the 110 Survivors of the Last American Slave Ship Now Available “Clotilda: The Exhibition” Will Open at Africatown Heritage House on July 8 Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama (May 31, 2023) — Africatown Heritage House, the site that will be home to “Clotilda: The Exhibition” and share the long-untold story of the last known slave ship to arrive in the

Mobile, Alabama (May 22, 2023) – Some of the best vacation destinations are the spots where you can do a little bit of everything during your trip. Here in Mobile, nicknamed Alabama’s “First City,”

Let Them Eat Cake!

Monday, May 1, 2023 9:00 AM by Press Releases

Roundup of the Best Cakes in MBPR’s Client Destinations

Lane Cake from The Hummingbird Way Oyster Bar

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Lane Cake was invented by Emma Rylander Lane more than 100 years ago as an entry in Alabama’s