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The Legacy of the Military
On the other side of Anniston, the Army constructed an Ordnance Depot on 15,000 acres west of the city during WWII. Over time, the depot evolved into the region's largest employer. The economic and community developme…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GF_tyrus-raymond-cobb_Anniston-AL.html
1n 1904, 18 year old Tyrus Raymond Cobb lived in a boarding house on this site while playing minor league baseball for the Anniston Steelers. From nearby Scarbrough Drug Store on Noble Street he wrote letters, using fictitious names, to sports wri…
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Local "Jim Crow" laws in the first half of the 20th century enforced racial segregation in public transportation facilities throughout the South. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. Virginia (1960) upheld that segregation in these facili…
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Throughout the first half of the 20th century, race relations in the South were dominated by local "Jim Crow" laws. Although in 1960 the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation violated the Interstate Commerce Act, local laws persisted.
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Hobson City is Alabama's first incorporated black city. The area was first known as Mooree Quarter, a black settlement that was part of Oxford, Alabama. After a black man was elected Justice of the Peace in Oxford, one mayor promised, if el…
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Erected by the Anniston Post American Legion to the Calhoun County Men who served in the World War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZXE_temple-beth-el-section-hillside-cemetery_Anniston-AL.html
In April 1888, the founder of a newly established Reform Jewish congregation purchased twenty-three lots in Hillside Cemetery to bury their deceased members. In 1987, the City of Anniston vacated right-of-way that allowed the Temple to expand the …
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Dedicated Oct. 15, 1980 and given in memory of those members who gave their lives in World War I & II by the 27th. Division Association whose members trained on this ground 1940-1941
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Major John Pelham C.S.A.
Born September 14, 1838at the home of his Grand ParentsWilliam McGehee and Elizabeth Clay McGehee
Erected by Forney District U.D.C.May 5, 1937
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Commanded Horse Artillery ofArmy of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.Killed at Kelly's Ford, Va.March 17, 1863
Styled "The Gallant Pelham"By Robert E. Lee