The Port of Mobile Alabama has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.
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Mobile Alabama is the principal municipality of the Mobile Alabama metropolitan area.
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Mobile Alabama was founded in 1702 by the French as the first capital of Louisiana.
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Mobile Alabama became a part of the United States in 1813, with the annexation by President James Madison of West Florida from Spain.
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Mobile Alabama is known for having the oldest organized Carnival or Mardi Gras celebrations in the United States.
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European settlement of Mobile Alabama began with French colonists, who in 1702 constructed Fort Louis de la Louisiane, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile Alabama River, as the first capital of the French colony of La Louisiane.
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Capital of La Louisiane was moved in 1720 to Biloxi, leaving Mobile Alabama to serve as a regional military and trading center.
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Mobile Alabama captured Mobile during the Battle of Fort Charlotte in 1780, as part of this campaign.
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Mobile Alabama was the slave-trading center of the state until the 1850s, when it was surpassed by Montgomery.
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The exports of cotton grew in proportion to the amounts being produced in the Black Belt; by 1840 Mobile Alabama was second only to New Orleans in cotton exports in the nation.
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Mobile Alabama slaveholders owned relatively few slaves compared to planters in the upland plantation areas, but many households had domestic slaves, and many other slaves worked on the waterfront and on riverboats.
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Federal Reconstruction in Mobile Alabama began after the Civil War and effectively ended in 1874 when the local Democrats gained control of the city government.
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Mobile Alabama was one of the last cities to retain this form of government, which prevented smaller groups from electing candidates of their choice.
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Mobile Alabama was one of eighteen United States cities producing Liberty ships.
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Mobile Alabama legislature passed the Cater Act in 1949, allowing cities and counties to set up industrial development boards to issue municipal bonds as incentives to attract new industry into their local areas.
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Mobile Alabama is occasionally affected by major tropical storms and hurricanes.
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Mobile Alabama is the birthplace of the celebration of Mardi Gras in the United States and has the oldest celebration, dating to the early 18th century during the French colonial period.
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Mobile Alabama celebrated the day in front of the occupying Union Army troops.
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In 2002, Mobile Alabama's Tricentennial celebrated with parades that represented all of the city's mystic societies.
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Mobile Alabama Theatre Guild is a nonprofit community theatre that has served the city since 1947.
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Mobile Alabama Arts Council is an umbrella organization for the arts in Mobile Alabama.
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Mobile Alabama has more than 45 public parks within its limits, with some that are of special note.
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Fort of Colonial Mobile Alabama is a reconstruction of the city's original Fort Conde, built on the original fort's footprint.
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Mobile Alabama has antebellum architectural examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Creole cottage.
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Mobile Alabama has a number of historic structures in the city, including numerous churches and private homes.
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The Gulf, Mobile Alabama and Ohio Passenger Terminal is an example of the Mission Revival style.
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Since 1985 the government of Mobile Alabama has consisted of a mayor and a seven-member city council.
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Mobile Alabama was re-elected for a second term in 2009 without opposition.
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Mobile Alabama's administration continued the focus on downtown redevelopment and bringing industries to the city.
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Mobile Alabama ran for a third term in 2013 but was defeated by Sandy Stimpson.
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The State of Alabama operates the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science on Dauphin Street in Mobile, which boards advanced Alabama high school students.
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Mobile Alabama has a large number of private schools, most of them parochial in nature.
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Major colleges and universities in Mobile that are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools include the University of South Alabama, Spring Hill College, the University of Mobile, Faulkner University, and Bishop State Community College.
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University of South Mobile Alabama is a public, doctoral-level university established in 1963.
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The Mobile Alabama campus was established in 1975 and offers bachelor's degrees in Business Administration, Management of Human Resources, and Criminal Justice.
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University of Mobile Alabama is a four-year private Baptist-affiliated university in the neighboring city of Prichard that was founded in 1961.
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Mobile Alabama serves the central Gulf Coast as a regional center for medicine, with over 850 physicians and 175 dentists.
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Additionally, the University of South Mobile Alabama operates the University of South Mobile Alabama Children's and Women's Hospital with 219 beds, dedicated exclusively to the care of women and minors.
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Defunct companies that had been founded or based in Mobile included Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Delchamps, and Gayfers.
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Mobile Alabama Aeroplex at Brookley is an industrial complex and airport located 3 miles south of the central business district of the city.
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Mobile Alabama is served by four Class I railroads, including the Canadian National Railway, CSX Transportation, the Kansas City Southern Railway, and the Norfolk Southern Railway .
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The Mobile Alabama Beacon was an alternative focusing on Mobile Alabama's African-American communities that ran from 1943 to 2018.
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Mobile Alabama is served locally by a number of over-the-air television stations.
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Mobile Alabama is part of the Mobile Alabama–Pensacola–Fort Walton Beach designated market area, as defined by Nielsen Media Research.
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University of South Alabama in Mobile established a football team in 2007, which went undefeated in its 2009 inaugural season.
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South Mobile Alabama basketball is a respected mid-major, regularly competing for the Sun Belt Conference championship.
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Archbishop Lipscomb Athletic Complex is home of AFC Mobile Alabama, which is a National Premier Soccer League team.
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Mobile Alabama is home to the Azalea Trail Run, which races through historic midtown and downtown Mobile Alabama.
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