Raw States
Greater Gulf State Fair
Mobile, AL · Festival
- When
- October 30 – November 8, 2026
- Where
- The Grounds · Mobile · AL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Mobile's ten day state fair at The Grounds, with a midway, livestock shows, and a concert series serving the central Gulf Coast. The fair has run in some form since the 1970s and remains the region's largest annual fair.
The history within reach
- Greater Gulf State Fairsame spot
Mobile's ten day state fair at The Grounds, with a midway, livestock shows, and a concert series serving the central Gulf Coast.
Hank Aaron grew up in this neighbourhood in a house his father built from scrap, hitting bottle caps with a stick because there were no balls.
- Hank Aaron8.1 mi
Born in Mobile's Down the Bay neighbourhood and taught himself to hit cross-handed with bottle caps and broomsticks.
The French celebrated here fifteen years before New Orleans existed, and the modern parading krewe was invented in Mobile in 1830 when a cotton clerk called Michael Krafft led a drunken procession with rakes and cowbells borrowed from a hardware store.
The Clotilda landed 110 people from Benin in 1860, fifty years after the slave trade was banned, on a bet by a Mobile shipowner that he could get away with it, and he did, burning and sinking the ship upriver.