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Some claim the earliest Mardi Gras celebration was in Mobile, Alabama, not New Orleans, but it depends on a few technicalities—and who's answering the question. By: Lesley Kennedy Updated Mobile's Mardi Gras may be small compared to New Orleans, but it does bring in a lot of revenue for the city. "The last major study conducted by the University of South Alabama's business school in 2012 and it was determined, in less than a month, carnival generated over $400 million from Mobile County," Blackwell said. New Orleans eventually became the kingpin of Mardi Gras, but it started as a thought from Alabama’s oldest city. In 1830, a group of men in Mobile started a New Year’s Day parade, the Cowbellions. The Argument for New Orleans. Those who believe New Orleans gets the crown say the first Mardi Gras took place on March 3, 1699, when French explorers Bienville and Iberville put down stakes on the west bank of the Mississippi River, about 60 miles downriver from the site of what would become the Crescent City. However, many historians and researchers give the honor of originating Mardi Gras in the U.S. to another southern city: Mobile, Alabama. Mobile is located 144 miles away from New Orleans. By the 1830s, Mardi Gras had spread to New Orleans as a parade and celebration that mirrored Mobile’s festival. Then in the 1870s, New Orleans surpassed Mobile as the king town of Mardi Gras. Some claim the earliest Mardi Gras celebration was in Mobile, Alabama, not New Orleans, but it depends on a few technicalities—and who's answering the question. If you thought Mardi Gras—that annual celebration that marks the last day before the Christian season of Lent—began in New Orleans, you’re clearly not from Alabama. Despite what you might have heard, Mardi Gras didn't get its start in New Orleans. You see, Mardi Gras began in Mobile, Alabama – a port city with close proximity to the Gulf of Mexico, located When New Orleans embraced Mardi Gras parading in 1856, floats and costumed were borrowed from Mobile that first year. That would seem to make it a clear case that Mobile started Mardi Gras, at However, due to the prominent position that Mardi Gras holds in many cities along the Gulf Coast of the Southern United States, including New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama, it is just as appropriate to consider Mardi Gras to be an element of folklore that belongs to the broadly defined geographic region of the Gulf South. 1 In this Alabama tourism officials sparked the debate by placing billboards in New Orleans declaring "You are 114 miles from America's original Mardi Gras," referring to Mobile, Alabama. For example, rather than krewes, Mobile has mystic societies that serve a similar purpose. “Yet they completely complement one another,” he adds. Mobile, Alabama. Unlike New Orleans’ Mardi Gras parades, which take place throughout the city’s many neighborhoods and its greater surrounds, “All of our stuff is downtown,” says Blackwell. Depends how you define it. Point Du Mardi Gras was just south of modern day New Orleans, and was the first celebration. “The party proceeded upstream to a place on the west bank about 60 miles (97 km) downriver from where New Orleans is today, where a small tributary emptied into the great river, and made camp in what is now Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Th Answer 1 of 7: We are planning on visiting Alabama and New Orleans in February, notably for Mardi Gras parades. Having two young children (1,5 and 5), what would you recommend? We are driving from Atlanta and plan on spending a week in the area. All advise are Mardi Gras throwdown - New Orleans vs Mobile by the numbers. Updated: Feb. 10, 2013, 3:07 p.m. New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau; Alabama Department of Tourism, AP. The last float in a Mardi Gras parade passes by a throng in Mobile, Ala., on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Alabama’s port city held a main event of its Carnival season, a quirky bash honoring the man In 1840, the Mobile Cowbellions added floats and paraded with the theme “Heathen Gods & Goddesses.” Two other “mystic societies” were founded in Alabama before New Orleans joined the You don't have to go to the Big Easy to experience all the fun. Here are four other U.S. cities that celebrate Mardi Gras in style. Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama. Home of the first Mardi Gras celebration in America, Mobile proudly continues to honor long established traditions with parties, masked balls, and parades. MOBILE, Ala. — It’s a tale of two cities when it comes to Mardi Gras, Mobile and New Orleans plans differing greatly.To prevent the further spread of COVID-19, beginning Friday, Feb. 12 Answer 1 of 7: We are planning on visiting Alabama and New Orleans in February, notably for Mardi Gras parades. Having two young children (1,5 and 5), what would you recommend? We are driving from Atlanta and plan on spending a week in the area. All advise are
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