In September of 2020, Hurricane Sally badly damaged a number of the large trees in the square, creating open sky, where a green, shady canopy once was.

A new bandstand with public restrooms was donated to the park in 1941 by the Sears and Roebuck Company to replace one from the Victorian era.

[6] A plaque is installed near the northwest corner of the park honoring the city’s founder D’Iberville, the first governor of Louisiana and elder brother to Bienville.

A large granite cross near the southern edge of the park honors Bienville, the younger of the two Le Moyne brothers who settled Mobile, and the second governor of Louisiana.

(In January 2018, Ben Raines of al.com reported that he may have found the wreckage of Clotilda, which was burned and sunk in the river north of Mobile.