Alabama's Coastal Connection

Historical marker location:

13790 South Wintzell Avenue, Bayou La Batre, Alabama

( Marker is on South Wintzell Avenue (Alabama Route 188) south of Tapia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)

Blessing of the Fleet.

Alabama is home to several important civil rights landmarks, including the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which was the site of a deadly bombing in 1963, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, which was the site of the "Bloody Sunday" confrontation between civil rights marchers and state troopers in 1965.