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Daphne is a city on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay in Baldwin County, Alabama, and with 27,462 residents in the 2020 census it is the most populous city in Baldwin County.

Daphne is known as 'The Jubilee City' for the Mobile Bay jubilee, a natural phenomenon in which crabs, shrimp and fish are driven ashore by low-oxygen water and can be gathered by the bucketful.

The community was established in 1763 under British rule and was known simply as 'the Village,' serving as the eastern terminal of a ferry across Mobile Bay.

Daphne became the Baldwin County seat in 1868, after the previous seat, Blakeley, was deserted following the Civil War; it was then known as the Village of Bell Rose.

When the legislature moved the county seat to Bay Minette in 1900, Daphne residents refused to surrender the records — the county files were finally hauled away in wagons in a late-night operation in October 1901.

Daphne was incorporated on July 8, 1927, with an initial population of about 500, and James M. Voltz served as its first mayor.

In 1888 Daphne received Baldwin County's first wave of Italian immigrants, who founded a colony under Alesandro Mastro-Valero; Queen Margherita of Italy sent gifts in 1898 that are still displayed at Christ the King Catholic Church.

Daphne is the middle of the three 'Eastern Shore' cities on Mobile Bay, between Spanish Fort to the north and Fairhope to the south, and lies along Interstate 10 about 11 miles east of Mobile.

The 2020 census counted 11,195 households in Daphne, and the city's population has grown in every census since 1940 — from 630 residents in 1940 to more than 27,000 in 2020.

In July 1997, Hurricane Danny's winds blew so much water out of Mobile Bay at Daphne that the bay bottom was nearly exposed enough to walk across.