African-American Heritage
Groups may charter a private tour through the African American Heritage Trail. A tour guide will board your coach with a map for your driver and narrate a tour of the many locations and sites on the Trail identified with historic markers. Other heritage venues may be visited separately.
Day 1 - MORNING
Museum of Mobile
Visit the Museum of Mobile, located in the Southern Market/Old City Hall, a National Historic Landmark built in 1857. View the rich history of Native American, Colonial, African-American and Antebellum influences that come alive in the museum's 21st century exhibits and Discovery Room, a hands-on gallery for children and adults.
National African-American Archives Museum
The museum houses documents, records, photographs, books, African carvings, furniture, and "special collections". Exhibits include "History of Colored Carnival"(Mardi Gras) and "Slavery Artifacts" (shackles, leg irons, slave collars, slave bracelets and badges).
Day 1 - AFTERNOON
African American Heritage Trail Escorted Driving Tour
As visitors relive the forgotten past, they will hear about the early Creoles of African descent; about African survivors from the Clotilda (the last slave ship to enter the U.S. in 1860); newly freed blacks who worshipped and built the oldest churches in Alabama; African Americans who settled in an area name ironically for Jefferson Davis-Davis Avenue and later renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Ave; and the Civil Rights advocates that were integral to the desegregation of the city's schools and public offices.
Bishop State Community College
Bishop State's Central Campus is located on the site of the Old Central High School near downtown Mobile. The College has a museum that contains artifacts of early black Mobilians, focusing on the development of Davis Avenue. Artifacts, manuscripts, audio and visual arts are displayed. Free admission.
Day 2 - MORNING
USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park
See courage up close as you explore 175 acres of history and seven decades of heroism, from WWII to Iraqi Freedom, at one of America's finest military parks. At Battleship Memorial Park you will walk the decks of a mighty Battleship. Go below in a WWII submarine. View cockpits of over 24 vintage aircraft. You will also see tanks, a Vietnam River Patrol Boat and much more. Its all here. All waiting to be discovered by you.
American Sport Art Museum
This free museum is a division of the United States Sports Academy and is dedicated to the preservation of sports history, art and literature. The ASAMA collection contains over 1,000 art pieces in all mediums: paintings, sculptures, prints, posters, photographs and assemblages. It is believed to be the largest collection of sport art in North America and perhaps the world.
Day 2 - AFTERNOON/EVENING
Bellingrath Gardens and Home
"The Charm Spot of the Deep South." Enjoy 65 acres of year-round floral pageantry in a Southern estate garden. Visit the Delchamps Gallery of Boehm Porcelain, the largest public collection of Boehm porcelain in the United States. Tour the Bellingrath Museum Home, featured on A&E's America's Castles series, and filled with priceless antiques and furnishings. Relax on a scenic cruise of Fowl River aboard the Southern Belle River Cruiser.
Mobile Greyhound Park
Enjoy live greyhound racing year round with pari-mutual wagering. Also available are horse and greyhound racing via closed-circuit simulcast. Delicious gulf coast seafood is a menu specialty.
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