Bartram's Trail

Historical marker location:

216 West Fort Toulouse Road, Wetumpka, Alabama

( Marker is on West Fort Toulouse Road, 0.1 miles west of U.S. 231, on the right when traveling west.)

The city of Mobile, Alabama is home to the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the United States. The first Mardi Gras parade in Mobile took place in 1703, just one year after the city was founded by the French.