A Brief History of Mobile, AL

The settlement of "Fort Louis de la Mobile" was first established in 1702, at the 27 Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, as the first capital of the French colony of Louisiana. Following a series of floods, the town was then relocated down river to its present location near the head of Mobile Bay in 1711, with another wooden Fort Louis. The Capital of the Louisiana Territory was moved to Biloxi in 1720 and to New Orleans in 1723, and Mobile was relegated to the role of the frontier town and trading post.