

Founders of "old line" Carnival (Mardi Gras and New Year's) krewes and mystic societies in Mobile and New Orleans:* Cowbellion de Rakin Society (1830, Mobile)* Strikers Independent Society (1843, Mobile)* T.D.S. (The Determined Set, 1844. Mobile)* Krewe of Comus (1856, New Orleans)* Lost Cause Minstrels (1867. Mobile)* Order of Myths (1868, Mobile)* Infant Mystics (H.S.S., 1869, Mobile)* Twelft...