[2] Foley is a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area, which includes all of Baldwin County.

[3] As Foley was traveling to President William McKinley's funeral in 1901, he met a railroad agent who told him of the area in South Baldwin County.

John Foley donated parcels of land for a school, railroad station, park and churches.

[4] The first train to service Foley was a wood burner called the "Pine Knot Special."

As people cleared the land, they would place lighter knots in a wood box for the engineer to use as was needed.

[11] OWA is a 520-acre resort destination located in Foley near the commercial corridor of South McKenzie Street.

Owned and operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, OWA's name is inspired from the Muscogee Creek term meaning “big water.” It opened in 2017, being centered around an artificial lake with an island (Dubbed Gravity Island), similarly to another Entertainment District, Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The resort features an entertainment, shopping, and dining section called Downtown OWA, an amusement park section called The Park at OWA, with rides being supplied by Italian manufacturer Zamperla, including a rollercoaster called Rollin' Thunder, a copy of Thunderbolt at Zamperla's Luna Park, and a TownePlace Suites hotel.

[12] The commercial corridor of South McKenzie Street features a variety of stores and restaurants, including a Tanger Outlet.

[16] Holmes Medical Museum is located in downtown Foley and was the first hospital in Baldwin County.