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According to local accounts, George Cassibry was the first white person to settle in Grand Bay.

He came to Grand Bay in 1853, establishing a homesite near the headwaters of Franklin Creek located today near the intersection of Highway 90 and Ramsey Road.

Exploration and settlement of the area was well underway by the mid-nineteenth century.

During the Civil War, the town saw brief military action as a column of troops under U. S. General Gordon Granger reached the town as a preliminary move in the siege of Mobile. In 1870 the United States Postal Service established a Post Office at a location near the center of the current community.