Anniston, Alabama Anniston, Alabama Downtown Anniston in 2012 Downtown Anniston in 2012 Anniston is a town/city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of the town/city was 23,106. According to the 2013 Enumeration Estimates, the town/city had a populace of 22,666. The town/city is the governmental center of county of Calhoun County and one of two urban centers/principal metros/cities of and encompassed in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area.
7.1 Anniston Army Depot Although the encircling area was settled much earlier, the mineral resources in the region of Anniston were not exploited until the Civil War.
The Confederate States of America then directed an iron furnace near present-day downtown Anniston, until it was finally finished by raiding Union cavalry in early 1865.
Later, cast iron for sewage systems became the focus of Anniston's industrialized output.
Lloyd, who farmed territory in what is now Anniston west of Noble Street, was executed on the orders of Union General John Croxton for allegedly bushwhacking a Union cavalryman.
This panoramic map with marked points of interest illustrates a bird's-eye view of Anniston, Alabama, in 1887, fourteen years after the town was chartered in 1873.
Child workers at Anniston Yarn Mills, 1910.
This was soon changed to Anniston.
Anniston was chartered as a town in 1873. Schools also appeared, including the Noble Institute, a school for girls established in 1886, and the Alabama Presbyterian College for Men, established in 1905.
Careful planning and easy access to rail transit helped make Anniston the fifth biggest city in the state from the 1890s to the 1950s.
In 1917, at the start of World War I, the United States Army established a training camp at Fort Mc - Clellan.
On the other side of town, the Anniston Army Depot opened amid World War II as a primary weapons storage and maintenance site, a part it continues to serve as munitions-incineration progresses.
Most of the site of Fort Mc - Clellan was incorporated into Anniston in the late 1990s, and the Army closed the fort in 1999 following the Base Realignment and Closure round of 1995.
Historic marker commemorating the Freedom Riders in downtown Anniston Anniston was the center of nationwide controversy in 1961 when a mob bombed a bus filled with civilian Freedom Riders amid the American Civil Rights Movement.
One of the buses was fire-bombed outside Anniston on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 14, 1961.
The riders were viciously beaten as they tried to flee, and only warning shots fired into the air by highway patrolmen inhibited the riders from being lynched on the spot. Located along Alabama Highway 202 about 5 miles (8 km) west of downtown, the site today is home to a historic marker and was designated Freedom Riders National Monument by President Barack Obama in January 2017. Phil Noble, worked with an elder of his church, Anniston City Commissioner Miller Sproull, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city.
On September 16, 1963, with town/city police present, Noble and Sproull escorted black ministers into the library. In February 1964, Anniston Hardware, owned by the Sproull family, was bombed, presumably in retaliation for Commissioner Sproull's integration accomplishments.
1888 drawing and positioning of the Noble Institute for Girls in Anniston On the evening of July 15, 1965, a white racist rally was held in Anniston, after which Willie Brewster, a black foundry worker, was shot and killed while driving home from work.
A $20,000 reward was raised by Anniston civic leaders, and resulted in the apprehension, trial and conviction of the accused killer, Damon Strange, who worked for a prestige of the Ku Klux Klan. Historian Taylor Branch called the conviction of Damon Strange a "breakthrough verdict" on p.
At the southernmost length of the Blue Ridge, part of the Appalachian Mountains, Anniston's surrounding is home to diverse species of birds, reptiles and mammals.
Anniston is positioned at 33 39 46 N 85 49 35 W (33.663003, 85.826664). Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 45.7 square miles (118.4 km2), of which 45.6 square miles (118.2 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.15%, is water. In 2003, part of the town of Blue Mountain was took in into the town/city of Anniston, while the remaining portion of the town reverted to unincorporated Calhoun County. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Anniston has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Climate data for Anniston, Alabama The following primary highways pass through Anniston: Highway 431 (Anniston Eastern Bypass/Golden Springs Road) The Anniston Western Bypass runs from Interstate 20 in Oxford (the Coldwater exit) and runs north into the present State Route 202.
It is five lanes wide, handling Anniston Army Depot traffic.
The Anniston Eastern Bypass was a stalled universal of the Alabama Department of Transportation to build a four-lane highway in Calhoun County until revived by the 2009 federal stimulus package. It was the biggest influx of federal cash into the small-town economy since Fort Mc - Clellan closed.
Anniston is governed by Alabama's "weak mayor" form of town/city government.
Four town/city council members are propel to represent the city's four wards, and the mayor is propel at-large.
Day-to-day functions of town/city government are carried out by the town/city manager, who is appointed by the mayor and town/city council.
Anniston is the governmental center of county of Calhoun County, Alabama.
Circuit and precinct courts for the county and the precinct attorney's office are positioned in the Calhoun County Courthouse at the corner of 11th Street and Gurnee Avenue.
Other county administrative offices are in the Calhoun County Administrative Building at the corner of 17th and Noble streets, and a United States Courthouse, part of the U.S.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 21.7% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Anniston is home to the country's biggest and the one-time world's biggest chair, as designated by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1982.
In 1899, the governmental center of county of Calhoun County moved from Jacksonville to Anniston.
The Spirit of Anniston Main Street Program, Inc., a nonprofit organization started in 1993, spearheaded the restoration and revitalization of historic downtown Anniston, with a focus on the city's chief thoroughfare, Noble Street.
Anniston has long been a cultural center for northeastern Alabama.
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival was established in the town/city in 1972 and remained there until moving to Montgomery in 1985 seeking more robust financial support.
The town/city is home to the Anniston Museum of Natural History and the Berman Museum of World History.
The Alabama Symphony Orchestra since 2004 has performed a summer series of outside concerts, Music at Mc - Clellan, at the former Fort Mc - Clellan.
The initial main street, Noble Street, is seeing a rebirth as a shopping and dining precinct in the heart of downtown, but the large shopping centers in the region are positioned in Oxford, south of Anniston along Interstate 20.
The Chief Ladiga Trail, part of a 90-mile (140 km) paved rail trail with the Silver Comet Trail of Georgia, has its end in Anniston.
Anniston is served by two daily newspapers: The Birmingham News statewide edition, and the small-town 25,000 circulation daily paper, The Anniston Star.
Anniston-based Consolidated Publishing Co., publisher of The Anniston Star, also owns and operates advertising-supported newspapers in close-by Jacksonville, Piedmont and Cleburne County.
WEAC-CD is the only tv station that directly broadcasts from the Anniston area, but many Birmingham stations have towers and news agencys here, such as WJSU-TV (WJSU is a small-town broadcast station for Birmingham-based ABC 33/40), WBRC-TV (Fox), and WVTM-TV (NBC).
Alabama Public Television erected its tallest fortress up on Cheaha Mountain 12 miles (19 km) south of Anniston.
Formerly its own Arbitron-defined broadcast market, today Anniston is a part of the Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa tv designated market area.
Radio stations are divided into three sub markets inside that market; Anniston is in the Anniston-Gadsden Talladega radio sub market.
PCBs were produced in Anniston from 1929 to 1971, initially as the Swann Chemical Company.
In 2002, an investigation by 60 Minutes revealed Anniston had been among the most toxic metros/cities in the country.
The Anniston PCB site consists of residentiary, commercial, and enhance properties positioned in and around Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, that contain or may contain hazardous substances, including polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) impacted media.
Solutia Inc.'s Anniston plant encompasses approximately 70 acres (28 ha) of territory and is positioned about 1 mile west of downtown Anniston, Alabama.
Anniston Army Depot Anniston is home to the Anniston Army Depot which is used for the maintenance of most Army tracked vehicles.
The depot also homed a primary chemical weapons storage facility, the Anniston Chemical Activity, and a program to destroy those weapons, the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.
In 2003, the Anniston Army Depot began the process of destroying the chemical weapons it had stored at the depot and at Fort Mc - Clellan.
Public schools in Anniston are directed by Anniston City Schools.
Anniston High School (Grades 9 12) Anniston Middle School (Grades 6 8) Some schools have more computer labs, and Anniston High School also has an ACCESS Lab that allows for videoconferencing based classes involving other schools, supported by a high speed fiber network.
Anniston is home to some satellite campuses of Gadsden State Community College, both at the former Fort Mc - Clellan and at the Ayers ground in southern Anniston.
There are a several private major and secondary schools in Anniston, including: Elvin Mc - Cary, member of both homes of the Alabama State Legislature; Republican nominee for governor of Alabama in 1974; born, resided, died, and interred in Annisto"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Anniston city, Alabama".
"The Death of Willie Brewster: An appraisal of Anniston's moment of shame and triumph." Climate Summary for Anniston, Alabama "Anniston bypass, Huntsville overpass are big winners if Obama OKs stimulus plan".
"U.S.EPA Fact Sheet Anniston PCB Site" (PDF).
"One year after last chemical weapon destroyed, incinerator at Anniston Army Depot closed".
Grace Hooten Gates, The Model City of the New South: Anniston, Alabama, 1872 1900.
Kimberly O'Dell, Anniston.
City of Anniston official website Institute of Southern Jewish Life's History of Anniston "Anniston" Encyclopedia of Alabama' Municipalities and communities of Calhoun County, Alabama, United States Cities in Alabama - Cities in Calhoun County, Alabama - Anniston, Alabama - County seats in Alabama - History of black civil rights - History of civil rights in the United States - Racially persuaded violence in the United States - Riots and civil disorder in Alabama - Terrorist incidents in the United States - White supremacy in the United States - Populated places established in 1872 - 1872 establishments in Alabama
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