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Guests on this tour will have a powerful and chilling view of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Mobile, visiting a few of the elaborate tombs and monuments of Magnolia Cemetery. This tour has plenty of shady places to rest in this tranquil setting. 

The 90-minute tour begins at the main entrance on Virginia Street to discuss the impact of Yellow Fever on the lives of Mobilians. Guests will learn about common cures, such as the application of leeches to remove “bad blood,” and how the disease in Mobile affected the national economy.  Guests will visit the tombs of a few notable Mobilians who died in the great epidemic of 1839 including early real estate developer, Henry Hitchcock, probably the wealthiest man in the city at the time; Michael Krafft, founder of the Cowbellions, Mobile’s first mystic parading organization; and Benjamin Vincent, Krafft’s brother-in-law, ship captain and slave-trader. Walking through the cemetery, guests will also read heartbreaking epitaphs to the youngest victims, ending at the tomb of Josiah Nott, a Mobile physician who gained national notoriety for discovering the cause of the disease but whose four children all died of Yellow Fever in one week in 1853.

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