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Uss Alabama Battleship Comm
Po Box 65 Mobile AL - 251-433-2703
~0.08 miles from Mobile city center
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USS Alabama (BB-60), a South Dakota-class battleship, was the sixth completed ship named Alabama of the United States Navy, however she was only the third commissioned ship with that name. Alabama was commissioned in 1942 and served in World War II in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. She was decommissioned in 1947 and assigned to the reserve duty. She retired in 1962. In 1964, Alabama was taken to Mobile Bay and opened as a museum ship the following year. The ship was added to the National Historic Landmark registry in 1986.
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Downtown Mobile (Neighborhood)
Mobile AL
~0.14 miles from Mobile city center
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Bienville Square
Mobile AL
~0.14 miles from Mobile city center
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Bienville Square is a historic city park in the center of downtown Mobile, Alabama. Bienville Square was named for Mobile’s founder, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville.[1] It takes up the entire block bordered by the streets of Dauphin, Saint Joseph, Saint Francis, and North Conception.Bienville Square had its beginnings as a public park in 1824 when the United States Congress passed an act that transferred a large plot of land to the city of Mobile and specified that the property be forever used as a city park. This plot was the site of the old Spanish Hospital on the southwestern corner of the block, at the corner of Dauphin Street and North Conception Street. The city began buying the other lots in the block in 1834 and by 1849 held title to the entire block. The square was...
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Mobile Convention Center
Mobile AL
~0.26 miles from Mobile city center
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One South Water StreetMobile, AL 36602Phone: 251.208.2100Fax: 251.208.2150Key PersonnelBob Brazier bbrazier@mobileconventions.comGeneral Manager
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Cathedral Square
Mobile AL
~0.29 miles from Mobile city center
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Cathedral Square is a municipal park in Mobile, Alabama. It is bordered by the streets of North Claiborne, Dauphin, North Jackson, and Conti.At one time what is now Cathedral Square was part of Mobile's 18th century Catholic cemetery, the Campo Santo. The Campo Santo was roughly 400 feet (120 m) long by 300 feet (91 m) wide and filled portions of what are now several city blocks between Joachim, Dauphin, Franklin, and Conti Streets. Most of the burials were moved to the new Church Street Graveyard in 1819 as Mobile's city boundary expanded. A few graves continued to be accidentally unearthed along Conti Street as late as the 1890s, however.[1]The area that is now Cathedral Square quickly became a commercial block filled with buildings after the relocation of the cemetery. The buildin...
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Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Mobile AL
~0.31 miles from Mobile city center
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The first Catholic Parish on the Gulf coast was established at Mobile in 1703, one year after the founding of Mobile. In 1704, Father Henri Roulleaux De la Vente was canonically installed as the first pastor of the Church of Fort Louis de la Louisiane (Mobile). When the City of Mobile was relocated to its present site in 1711, the Parish Church was rebuilt on the West side of Royal street just North of Conti Street, under the patronage of Our Lady of Mobile. It was in 1781, in Mobile’s Spanish period, that the parish received its present title “Church of the Immaculate Conception.”When bishop Michael Portier became the First Bishop of Mobile in 1829, he set out to build a Cathedral befitting the name.
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Bishop Portier House
Mobile AL
~0.32 miles from Mobile city center
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The Bishop Portier House is a historic residence in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It sits diagonally across from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and faces Cathedral Square. It is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile. The house, built circa 1834, is one of Mobile's best surviving examples of a Creole cottage with neoclassical details.
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Gulf Coast Exploreum
Mobile AL
~0.33 miles from Mobile city center
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The Gulf Coast Exploreum is a non-profit science center that features three permanent exhibitions, a wide variety of traveling exhibitions, a virtual theater, and an IMAX theater in downtown Mobile, Alabama. The center opened in 1998 and had reached a total of 1.5 million visitors by 2007.In 1976 the Junior League of Mobile provided funding for research and development of a hands-on interactive museum for the children of Mobile, with this initial commitment directly leading to the creation of The Explore Center, Inc., a private, non-profit educational incorporation, and a Board of Trustees. The board eventually raised $1.3 million to build a 10,000-square-foot (929 m2) contemporary building on Springhill Avenue adjacent to the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion, and the Gulf Coast Exploreum “Museu...
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Museum of Mobile
111 S Royal St Mobile AL - 251-434-7569
~0.33 miles from Mobile city center
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Attraction type: Museum of Local Historyhttp://www.museumofmobile.com/Address: 111 South Royal Street Southern Market/Old City Hall Mobile, AL 36602Tel: 251-208-7569Fax: 251-208-7686
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Christ Church Cathedral
Mobile AL
~0.36 miles from Mobile city center
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Christ Church Cathedral, also known simply as Christ Church, is a historic Episcopal cathedral located in Mobile, Alabama, USA.Christ Church Cathedral was established in 1823 as the first Episcopal congregation in Mobile, Alabama and the first in the State of Alabama. The first Anglican church services had been conducted at Fort Charlotte during the British occupation of Mobile. The cornerstone of the current Greek Revival building was laid in 1838, with construction being completed in 1840. The building is stucco over brick with stone accents.In 1906 a major hurricane swept through the Mobile area and the storm crashed the original steeple through the roof, destroying both in the process. After repairs were completed the steeple was not replaced, and the church assumed its modern ap...
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Mobile Carnival Museum
Mobile AL
~0.38 miles from Mobile city center
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The Mobile Carnival Museum is a history museum that chronicles over 300 years of Carnival and Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. The museum is housed in the historic Bernstein-Bush mansion on Government Street in downtown Mobile.The museum features displays that tell the story of how the local celebration evolved from its early days to the modern tradition it has become. The Queen's Gallery houses gowns, trains, and jewels worn by the queens of Carnival. Also on display is the attire of a 1920s flapper queen, as well as costumes of several jesters of well-known parading societies. The collections also include original Mardi Gras art and posters by various area artists, doubloons, tableaux designs, and ball invitations. The mansion's former carriage house contains interactive exhibits, incl...
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Fort Conde Museum
Mobile AL
~0.40 miles from Mobile city center
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Fort Conde, located in Mobile, Alabama, at 150 South Royal Street, is a reconstruction, at 4/5 scale, as a third of the original 1720s French Fort Condé at the site, also known as Fort Carlota (under Spanish rule) and also Fort Charlotte (under British or American rule). The current Fort Conde, spanning almost 1/3 of the original fort, was recreated at 4/5-scale on the site. The new Fort Conde was opened on July 4, 1976, as part of Mobile’s celebration of the United States bicentennial.Admission to Fort Conde is free
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Charlotte Conde Museum House
104 Theatre St Mobile AL - 251-432-4722
~0.46 miles from Mobile city center
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The Conde-Charlotte House, also known as the Kirkbride House, is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. The earliest section of the building, the rear kitchen wing, was built in 1822. The main section of the house was added a few decades later and is two and a half floors. The entire structure is constructed of hand-made brick with a smooth stucco plaster over the exterior
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Mobile Civic Center
401 Civic Center Dr Mobile AL - 251-208-7261
~0.46 miles from Mobile city center
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Mobile Civic Center is a multi-use event center located in Mobile, Alabama. It comprises three venues:The 1,940 seat theater is used for concerts, Broadway shows, and other theatrical events. The Theater is connected to the Arena by a glass promenade. The theater is known for its acoustics, unobstructed views, and backstage facilities. It contains a 90 by 60 foot (27 by 18 m) stage.With 28,000 square feet (2600 m²) of space, the Expo Hall can be used for conventions, trade shows, sporting events, banquets, and even concerts as well as other events. It seats 2,200 for seating events and up to 3,000 for concerts. It has a 40 by 32 foot (12 by 28 m) portable stage and a dance floor that can accommodate 1,500.The tallest building in the complex at seven stories tall, the Civic Cent...
http://www.mobilecivicctr.com/ |  #15 of 30 Things To Do in Mobile
Mobile Museum of Art
Po Box 8426 Mobile AL - 251-208-5200
~0.46 miles from Mobile city center
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The Mobile Museum of Art is an art museum located in Mobile, Alabama. It features extensive art collections from the Southern United States, the Americas, Europe, and non-western art. The museum is host to exhibition programs which range from historical to contemporary, and features an array of diverse educational programs.The museum was founded in 1963 by the Mobile Art Association. The Mobile Museum of Art serves as the art museum of Mobile and the South Alabama area. The museum is located in the city owned Langan Park and recently underwent a $15 million expansion to triple its size to 95,000 square feet (8,826 m2)
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Phoenix Fire Museum
203 S Claiborne St # D Mobile AL - 251-208-7554
~0.48 miles from Mobile city center
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The Phoenix Fire Museum was the restored home of the Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company No. 6. Exhibits include turn-of-the-century horse-drawn steam engines and early motorized vehicles. The history of the volunteer fire companies of Mobile, from their organization in 1838, is displayed on the second floor.
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National African American Archives
905 Government St Mobile AL - 251-433-4265
~0.86 miles from Mobile city center
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The National African American Archives and Museum, formerly the Davis Avenue Branch of the Mobile Public Library, is an archive and history museum located in Mobile, Alabama. It serves as a repository for documents, records, photographs, books, African carvings, furniture, and special collections that all relate to the African American experience in the United States.The Davis Avenue Branch of the Mobile Public Library was built in 1931 to serve the needs of the local African American community. The building was modeled after the Ben May Main Library but constructed on a smaller scale. The local African American community helped collect used books for the library and raise funds for the acquisition of new books. This reflected the social reality of segregation, when African Americans w...
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Oakleigh House Museum
350 Oakleigh Pl Mobile AL - 251-432-1281
~1.35 miles from Mobile city center
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Oakleigh is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It is the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, a former slave quarters, and a modern archives building. The name for the estate comes from a combination of the word oak and the Anglo-Saxon word lea, that means meadow. The complex is within the Oakleigh Garden Historic District, the surrounding district and neighborhood being named after the estate.
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Oakleigh Historic Complex
Mobile AL
~1.39 miles from Mobile city center
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Oakleigh is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It is the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, a former slave quarters, and a modern archives building. The name for the estate comes from a combination of the word oak and the Anglo-Saxon word lea, that means meadow. The complex is within the Oakleigh Garden Historic District, the surrounding district and neighborhood being named after the estate.
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Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center
One South Water Street Mobile AL - 251-208-2000
~1.65 miles from Mobile city center
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The Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center provides the perfect setting and service to make your event a success. With a total of 317,000 square feet of meeting space, prime location on the Mobile River, and exceptional service, the Convention Center has all the amenities to help you celebrate in an atmosphere as special as your occasion.
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USS ALABAMA Park
Mobile AL
~1.66 miles from Mobile city center
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Admission fees: Age 12 & up: $12.00Ages 6-11: $6.00under age 6: FreeHours: Open everyday except Christmas DayOpens - 8:00 a.m.Closes - 4:00 p.m. October-March,6:00 p.m. April-SeptemberTelephone: (251)433-2703Fax: (251)433-2777Email: btunnell@ussalabama.comParking:$2 Park Use Fee per vehicle$25 Fee for Semi-Trucks(includes admission for one person)We have ample parking available for motor coaches, travel trailers, etc.No overnight parking allowed.Mailing address:USS ALABAMA2703 Battleship Parkway, Mobile, AL 36602Battleship Memorial Park2703 Battleship Parkway, Mobile BayP.O. Box 65Mobile, AL 36601-0065
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Battleship Memorial Park
Mobile AL
~1.89 miles from Mobile city center
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Battleship Memorial Park is a military history park and museum located on the western shore of Mobile Bay in Mobile, Alabama. It has a collection of notable aircraft and museum ships including the South Dakota-class battleship USS Alabama and Gato-class submarine USS Drum. The USS Alabama and USS Drum are both National Historic Landmarks, the park as a whole is listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage.In May 1962, the USS Alabama (BB-60) had been ordered scrapped along with her South Dakota-class sister ships, USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Indiana (BB-58), and USS Massachusetts (BB-59). Citizens of the state of Alabama had formed the "USS Alabama Battleship Commission" to raise funds for the preservation of Alabama as a memorial to the men and women who served in World ...
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Ladd-Peebles Stadium
Mobile AL
~2.37 miles from Mobile city center
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Ladd Peebles Stadium (formerly Ernest F. Ladd Memorial Stadium) is a stadium in Mobile, Alabama. It is primarily used for American football, and is the home field for the Senior Bowl, the GMAC Bowl, the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic, and the University of South Alabama Jaguars. It opened in 1948 and has a seating capacity of 40,646.It was originally named for Ernest F. Ladd, a local banking magnate who died in 1941. In 1997, it was renamed to honor E.B. Peebles, a civic leader who was instrumental in the revitalization of the Senior Bowl.In addition to football, the stadium is also used for concerts (maximum capacity 50,000), boxing matches, high school graduations, trade shows, and festivals. Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Buffett, and many other entertainers have performed at Ladd Peebles...
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Bragg Mitchell House Museum
1906 Springhill Ave Mobile AL - 251-471-6364
~2.62 miles from Mobile city center
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Oakdale Bible College
3435 Missile St Mobile AL - 251-457-2684
~5.98 miles from Mobile city center
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Spring Hill College
Mobile AL
~6.29 miles from Mobile city center
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Spring Hill College is a private, Roman Catholic Jesuit liberal arts college in the United States. It was founded in 1830 on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama, by Most Rev. Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, Alabama. It was the first Catholic college in the South, fifth oldest Catholic college in the United States, and third oldest of the 28 member Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In 2010, US News & World Report reported that Spring Hill College ranked 14th among the top colleges in the South offering both bachelor's and master's level degreesThe Spring Hill academic calendar is divided into two semesters, a fall semester of 15 weeks beginning at the end of August and endin...
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Us Navy Undersea Warfare
4851 Museum Dr Mobile AL - 251-343-5718
~6.69 miles from Mobile city center
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The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare. One of the corporate laboratories of the Naval Sea Systems Command, NUWC is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island, and has two major subordinate activities — Division Newport and Division Keyport (in Keyport, Washington). NUWC also controls the Fox Island Facility and Gould Island.NUWC employs more than 4,400 civilian and military personnel, with budgets of over US$1 billion.
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Mobile Botanical Gardens
Mobile AL
~6.70 miles from Mobile city center
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The Mobile Botanical Gardens were founded in 1974, and are located on Museum Drive in the Spring Hill community in Mobile, Alabama. The gardens are situated on 100-acre (0.40 km2) and are a blend of cultivated areas and natural habitats, including the Rhododendron Garden, Camellia Wintergarden, Fern Glade, Fragrance and Texture Garden, Japanese Maple Garden, Herb garden, and a Longleaf Pine habitat of 40 acres.The Rhododendron Garden contains eight collections of approximately 1,000 evergreen and native azaleas. The plantings were newly installed in 2006 within an older azalea garden. The collections here include Encore, Harris, Holly Springs, Mobile, National Arboretum Kurumes, Nuccio, Robin Hill, and Southern Indica. This is the most comprehensive rhododendron collection anywhere along...
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Five Rivers - Alabama's Delta Resource Center
Spanish Fort AL
~6.70 miles from Mobile city center
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Langan Park
Mobile AL
~6.89 miles from Mobile city center
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Langan Park, also known as Municipal Park, is a 720-acre (291 ha) municipal park in the Spring Hill neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama. The park opened in 1957 and was named for Joseph Langan, former state senator and city commissioner. It features lakes, natural spaces, tennis courts, children’s playgrounds and picnic areas. It is also home to the Azalea City Golf Course, the Mobile Botanical Gardens, the Mobile Museum of Art, and Playhouse in the Park.
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