Let the Good Times Roll....a History of Mobile Mardi Gras

First Carnival experience occured at 27 Mile Bluff

Feb 6, 1703

Societé de Saint Louise founded by French soldiers at Fort St. Louis de la Mobile

Apr 26, 1704

Birth of Joseph Stillwell Cain, Jr.

Oct 10, 1832

Joe Cain married Elizabeth Alabama Rabby

May 30, 1835

Joe Cain helped organize the Tea Drinkers Society

Jun 11, 1846

Joe Cain paraded around Moible dressed as Chief Slacabamorinico

Feb 23, 1866

Joe Cain accompanied by rebel confederate rode through town on a decorated coal wagon, playing horns and drums, parading and celebrating

Feb 23, 1867

Daniel E. Huger first reigned as Carnival King Felix I

Mar 9, 1872

Ethel Hodgson ruled as Mobile's first Mardi Gras queen in 1893

Mar 4, 1893

Death of Joe Cain

Apr 17, 1904

The Infant Mystics, the second oldest society that continues to parade, introduced the first electric floats to Mobile

Jan 30, 1929

In 1956, the first Moon Pies were thrown by children in the Comic Cowboys parade

Mar 4, 1956

Joe Cain was reburied in Mobile's Church Street Graveyard in 1966

Sep 9, 1966

Joe Cain Day Established

Feb 19, 1967

Cains Merry Widows formed to morn the death of their "beloved" husband

Feb 7, 1974

International Carnival Ball

Jan 24, 1993

This was a joint effort including both the Mobile Carnival Association and the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association