| The Port of Mobile grew with the expansion of the cotton trade in the 1800’s. Governor Thomas E. Kilby established the State Docks Commission in 1922 with the power to build, operate and maintain wharves, piers, docks and quays. Starting with an investment of just $10 million, the commission converted 548 acres of swampland and marsh into one of America’s finest seaport facilities.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains a sea channel from the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Mobile River at a safe navigational depth of 45 feet.
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