Tuskegee Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama

( Marker is on Booker T Washington Boulevard, 0.1 miles south of Frederick D. Patterson Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site.

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.