Notable Fact
Mobile's Greater Gulf State Fair — its real current name, not "Mobile County Fair" as it's sometimes still called — drew 78,000 visitors over its 10-day run in its most recent edition, per Amusement Today's trade-press attendance survey. It runs each fall at The Grounds in Mobile.
Source: Amusement TodayWhat You'll Find There
Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, major carnival midway, live entertainment, Gulf Coast seafood vendors, commercial exhibits, and a large fair serving the diverse communities of south Alabama's most populated and culturally rich county.
The Fair
Every year, Mobile hosts the Greater Gulf State Fair, which is an October fair at Alabama's oldest city and Gulf Port, celebrating the Mardi Gras, port, and multicultural heritage of a city that invented the American Mardi Gras tradition (Mobile's Mardi Gras predates New Orleans' by many years), served as a Confederate naval stronghold, and has the most European character of any city in Alabama.
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Mobile is Alabama's most historically layered city — the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park (a World War II battleship and submarine on permanent display in Mobile Bay), the Mobile Museum of Art, the Conde-Charlotte Museum House (one of the finest Colonial-era museums in the Gulf South), and Mobile's extraordinary Mardi Gras and azalea festival traditions make Mobile an exceptional Deep South destination.
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