The Mobile Medical Museum in the French colonial-style Vincent-Doan House chronicles the history of medicine in the city. The Phoenix Fire Museum in the restored Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company Number 6 building covers fire companies dating to 1838. The History Museum of Mobile showcases centuries of local history in the Old City Hall. Battleship Memorial Park is a military park on the shore of Mobile Bay. The Centre for the Living Arts is an organization that operates the historic Saenger Theatre and Space 301, a contemporary art gallery. The museum was expanded in 2002 to approximately 95,000 lizaro square feet (8,826 m2).

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George E. McNally, Mobile’s first Republican mayor since Reconstruction, was the driving force behind the founding of the IDB. During the 1950s the City of Mobile integrated its police force and Spring Hill College accepted students of all races. Between 1940 and 1943, more than 89,000 people moved into Mobile to work for war effort industries.
Mobile has been home to Minor League Baseball teams from the late nineteenth century to 2019. The top graduating high school seniors from their respective states compete each June. The Ladd-Peebles Stadium opened in 1948 and has a current capacity of 40,646, making it the fourth-largest stadium in the state. Mobile’s Jewish community dates back to the 1820s, and the city has two historic Jewish cemeteries, Sha’arai Shomayim Cemetery and Ahavas Chesed Cemetery. The Church Street Graveyard contains above-ground tombs and monuments spread over 4 acres (2 ha) and was founded in 1819. Several historic cemeteries were established shortly after the colonial era.

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• The port is also home to private bulk terminal operators, as well as a number of highly specialized shipbuilding and repair companies with two of the largest floating dry docks on the Gulf Coast.
• The public terminals handle containerized, bulk, breakbulk, roll-on/roll-off, and heavy-lift cargoes.
• Public schools in Mobile are operated by the Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS).
• The city initiated construction of numerous new facilities and projects, and the restoration of hundreds of historic downtown buildings and homes.
• When MAWSS was founded in 1814, it used Three-Mile Creek to provide water to the city.
• The Oakleigh Historic Complex are three house museums that portray the daily lives of enslaved, working class, and upper-class people during the 19th century.

It features the Arches of Friendship, a fountain presented to Mobile by the city of Málaga, Spain. Spanish Plaza is a downtown park that honors the Spanish phase of the city between 1780 and 1813. Cathedral Square is a one-block performing arts park, also in the Lower Dauphin Street Historic District, which is overlooked by the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Mobile is home to the Azalea Trail Run, which races through historic midtown and downtown Mobile. The public Mobile Tennis Center includes over 50 courts, all lighted and hard-court. In the twentieth century, several teams, each called the Bears, operated at different times.
The company operates the site as a full-service shipyard, employing approximately 600 workers. Despite the expansion and addition of two massive new cranes, the port went from 9th largest to the 12th largest by tonnage in the nation from 2008 to 2010. Current companies that were formerly based in the city include Checkers, Minolta-QMS, Morrison’s, and the Waterman Steamship Corporation. Aerospace, steel, ship building, retail, services, construction, medicine, and manufacturing are Mobile’s major industries.
For 2024, the city received $281.7 million in sales tax, $34.5 million in property tax, and $90.1 million for services such as business licenses. Of the property tax paid in the city, 11% goes to the city, 32% goes to the county, 10% goes to the state, and 47% goes to the school districts. Sam Jones was elected in 2005 as the first African-American mayor of Mobile. The council members are elected from each of the seven city council single-member districts (SMDs).

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Infirmary Health is Alabama’s largest nonprofit, non-governmental health care system. The 200-year-old Mobile County Health Department (MCHD) provides education and preventive health services to Mobile and surrounding areas. When MAWSS was founded in 1814, it used Three-Mile Creek to provide water to the city. In 2016, Spire Inc. bought EnergySouth, Inc, the parent company of Mobile Gas and has been provide the service to the surrounding community since then. This cessation of cruise service left the city with an annual debt service of around two million dollars related to the terminal. The public terminals handle containerized, bulk, breakbulk, roll-on/roll-off, and heavy-lift cargoes.

• River transportation was aided by the introduction of steamboats in the early decades of the 19th century.
• It serves as the official welcome center and a colonial-era living history museum.
• Several post-secondary vocational institutions have a campus in Mobile including Fortis College, Virginia College, ITT Technical Institute and Remington College.
• It is the largest industrial and transportation complex in the region with more than 70 companies, many of which are aerospace, spread over 1,650 acres (668 ha).
• The Mobile metropolitan area, with an estimated 412,000 people, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the state.
• The Fort of Colonial Mobile is a reconstruction of the city’s original Fort Condé, built on the original fort’s footprint.

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But Alabama’s white yeomanry had historically favored single-member districts in order to elect candidates of their choice. In 1911 the city adopted a commission form of government, which had three members elected by at-large voting. The last quarter of the 19th century was a time of economic depression and municipal insolvency for Mobile. The explosion left a 30-foot (9 m) deep hole at the depot’s location, and sank ships docked on the Mobile River; the resulting fires destroyed the northern portion of the city. On May 25, 1865, the city suffered great loss when some three hundred people died as a result of an explosion at a federal ammunition depot on Beauregard Street. The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, was built in Mobile.
When Mobile was included in the Mississippi Territory in 1813, the population had dwindled to roughly 300 people. By 1766, the town’s population was estimated to be 860 people, although the borders were smaller than during the French colonial period. The Treaty of Paris ceded French territories east of the Mississippi River to Britain, including Mobile. The tribe’s language was the basis for Mobilian Jargon, a Choctaw-derived lingua franca widely used to facilitate trade among the various Gulf Coast peoples. Alabama’s French Creole population celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. The Mobile metropolitan area, with an estimated 412,000 people, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the state.

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The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception was built on the colonial-era Campo Santo cemetery, of which no trace remains. Fires in 1827 and 1839 destroyed the city’s remaining wooden colonial architecture. Early cottages, similar to those in other French settlements, were built as rows of two or three separate rooms each with a front and rear door that often opened onto an external porch running the length of the home. The Dauphin Island Sea Lab is located south of the city, on Dauphin Island near the mouth of Mobile Bay. The Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center is a non-profit science center located in downtown. The Bragg-Mitchell Mansion (1855), Richards DAR House (1860), and Condé-Charlotte House (1822) are antebellum house museums.