Camp Watts

Historical marker location:

Union Camp Road, Notasulga, Alabama

( Marker is on Union Camp Road, 0.2 miles north of Cooper Lane, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2007

Named for Thomas H. Watts. CSA Attorney General (1862-63) and Alabama Governor (1863-65).

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.