Mobile, Alabama, is home to the Battleship Memorial Park on the western shore of Mobile Bay. This is a military history park and museum where visitors can tour the World War II battleship USS Alabama and the submarine USS Drum. Both vessels are National Historic Landmarks. A statewide campaign in the 1960s preserved the USS Alabama, which now anchors a park that honours U.S. veterans.
Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in North America. The locals held the first Mardi Gras here in 1703, and the city continues to celebrate with parades, balls and a weeks-long season. The Mobile Carnival Museum is well worth a visit to learn more about this iconic event and to give you some context about the city. We continued this discovery at the History Museum of Mobile, which is housed in the beautiful Old City Hall.
We also loved our haunted Halloween murder mystery food tour with Bienville Bites Food Tours.
But, for me, my favourite experience was visiting Africatown and being invited to take part in an annual lantern walk. Africatown is a historic community founded by survivors of the Clotilda, the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, and it remains a place where West African traditions, resilience and cultural memory continue to shape local identity today.
Read about their entire Deep South adventure on Melanie's blog, "Travel Eat Write Repeat."
