Anniston, Alabama
| Anniston | |
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| Nickname : The Model City | |
 Calhoun County Courthouse (2014) |
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| Location of Anniston in Alabama | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1872 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Alabama |
| County : | Calhoun County |
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 40 ′ N , 85 ° 50 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
23,106 (as of 2010) 112,240 (as of 2005) |
| Population density : | 198.3 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 116.54 km 2 (approx. 45 mi 2 ) |
| Height : | 220 m |
| FIPS : | 01-01852 |
| GNIS ID : | 159066 |
| Website : | www.annistonal.gov |
| Mayor : | Gene Robinson |
Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the US state of Alabama , and the county seat of the county government.
Anniston is a site for iron, steel and cotton processing.
Anniston has an airport with the IATA abbreviation "ANB".
geography
Anniston is located in eastern Alabama in the southern United States. It is located a few kilometers west of the 1,600 square kilometer Talladega National Forest and directly on the Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge , which also includes part of the eastern urban area.
Nearby places include Saks (immediately adjacent to the west), West End-Cobb Town (immediately adjacent to the west), Weaver (immediately adjacent to the northwest), Oxford (immediately adjacent to the south) and Alexandria (2 km northwest).
history
In 1865 a settlement on the site of today's Anniston was destroyed by Confederate troops during the civil war and rebuilt in 1872 . Official historiography of the place begins in 1879 when the Woodstock Iron Works built the place as a settlement for their workers. The name was originally derived from the name of the wife of the owner of the foundry . "Annie's Town". Anniston began to grow rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century and developed into the "model city of the south" (a quote from journalist Henry W. Grady ) for the coexistence of industrial development, work and life.
In 1917 the US Army established the Fort McClellan base and an ammunition depot.
From 1929 onwards, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) were also produced industrially here for the electrical industry, until the toxicity of the substance and the level of environmental pollution could no longer be kept secret from the population and became known in a nationwide debate in the 1960s.
On May 14, 1961 , a bus of the civil rights movement Freedom Riders , which protested against the segregation laws in the southern United States, was set on fire by citizens of Annistons and the occupants were beaten.
After more than 10 years of expert opinions and legal proceedings on environmental pollution in Anniston and the surrounding area by PCB and other chemicals, the responsible chemical company Monsanto finally shut down the production facilities in 1977. Today Anniston is considered a historical memorial for irresponsible industrialization without consideration for people and nature.
Since 2003, the US Army and the companies it has commissioned to destroy the stocks of nerve gas ( sarin , mustard gas and VX ) stored in Anniston has been the largest employer in the region.
Forty-seven structures and sites in Anniston are on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of July 4, 2019, including the Calhoun County Courthouse .
education
There are a number of schools in the city. Including Anniston High School, Anniston Middle School and five elementary schools (Cobb Elementary, Constantine Elementary, Golden Springs Elementary, Randolph Park Elementary, Tenth Street Elementary). In addition, there are several private or Christian schools and a community college , Gadsden State Community College.
traffic
US Highway 431 runs from north to south of the city and runs for 895 kilometers from southern Alabama to Kentucky . South of the city also run Interstate 20 , which runs 2,470 kilometers from Texas to South Carolina , as well as US Highway 78 and Alabama State Route 4 on parts of the common route .
From the station you can take a train to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is also around 75 kilometers west of the city .
| growth of population | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1880 | 942 | - | |
| 1890 | 9998 | 961.4% | |
| 1900 | 9695 | -3% | |
| 1910 | 12,794 | 32% | |
| 1920 | 17,734 | 38.6% | |
| 1930 | 22,345 | 26% | |
| 1940 | 25,523 | 14.2% | |
| 1950 | 31,066 | 21.7% | |
| 1960 | 33,320 | 7.3% | |
| 1970 | 31,533 | -5.4% | |
| 1980 | 29,135 | -7.6% | |
| 1990 | 26,623 | -8.6% | |
| 2000 | 24,276 | -8.8% | |
| 2010 | 23.106 | -4.8% | |
| 2010 | |||
Culture
sons and daughters of the town
- Glenn Andrews (1909–2008), Member of the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1967
- Michael Biehn (* 1956), film actor
- Forrest Carter (1925–1979), speechwriter
- Louie Crew (* 1936), Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University in Newark
- Michael Curry (* 1968), NBA basketball player and coach
- William L. Dawson (1899–1990), composer, choir conductor and music teacher
- Bobby Edwards (1926–2012), singer
- Ruth Elder (1902–1977), aviation pioneer and actress
- Lamar Jeffers (1888–1983), officer and politician
- Lucky Millinder (1900–1966), R&B and swing band leader and singer
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Missouri Census Data Center ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2012
- ↑ Extract from the Encyclopedia of Alabama . Accessed February 12, 2011
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↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 4, 2019.
Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 4, 2019. - ↑ City of Anniston, AL. Retrieved April 15, 2012 .
Web links
- City of Anniston homepage
- Anniston in the Encyclopedia of Alabama