Anniston (Alabama)
Calhoun County
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Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Alabama, and the seat ( county seat ) of the Countyverwaltung.
Anniston is a location of the iron, steel and cotton processing.
Anniston has an airport with the IATA code " ANB ".
History
1865 a settlement on the site of today's Anniston was destroyed during the Civil War by Confederate troops in 1872 and rebuilt. The official history of the place begins in the year 1879 as the Woodstock Iron Works built the place as a settlement for your workers. The name was derived originally from the name of the wife of the owner of the foundry. " Annie 's Town ". Anniston began in the early twentieth century to grow rapidly and became the " Model City of the South" ( a quotation from the journalist Henry W. Grady ) for the interaction of industrial development, work and life.
1917 was established by the U.S. army base of Fort McCellan and a depot for ammunition.
From 1929, here also industrially Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs ) was prepared for the electrical industry, to the toxicity of the substance and the degree of pollution before the population could no longer be kept secret and was known in the 1960s in a nationwide debate.
On 14 May 1961 a bus the Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders, who were protesting against the segregation laws in the American South, lit by citizens Anniston and beat the occupants.
After more than 10 years of expertise and legal proceedings related to pollution in Anniston and environment by PCBs and other chemicals put in charge of the chemical company Monsanto 1977, the production definitively closed. Today Anniston is considered a historical monument for irresponsible industrialization without regard to man and nature.
Since 2003, the U.S. Army and the companies contracted by them is to destroy the bearings in Anniston stocks of nerve gas ( sarin, mustard gas and VX) is the largest employer in the region.
Education
In the standt there are a number of schools. Among the Anniston High School, Anniston Middle School and the fifth primary schools ( Cobb Elementary, Constantine Elementary, Golden Springs Elementary, Randolph Park Elementary, Tenth Street Elementary ). There are also several private and Christian schools and a community college, the Gadsden State Community College.
Traffic
From the train station you can take the train to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Glenn Andrews, from 3 January 1965 to January 3, 1967 Member of the House of Representatives of the United States
- Michael Biehn, movie actor
- Forrest Carter, speechwriter
- Louie Crew, Professor of English / American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark
- Michael Curry, Basketball NBA players and coaches
- William L. Dawson, composer, choir conductor and music teacher
- Bobby Edwards, singer
- Ruth Elder, aviation pioneer and actress
- Lamar Jeffers, army officer and politician
- Lucky Millinder, R & B and swing bandleader and singer