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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GP_the-legacy-of-the-military-annistons-military-heritage_Anniston-AL.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GE_southern-railway-station-attack_Anniston-AL.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20GD_trailways-bus-station-attack_Anniston-AL.html
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.
Wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FY_historic-oxford_Oxford-AL.html
First incorporated as a town, February 7, 1852, in Benton County, Oxford's second incorporation was approved February 21, 1860 in Calhoun County. Long before this territory was "settled", it was inhabited by Creek Indians. In the time th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FX_simmons-park_Oxford-AL.html
The town of Oxford was first incorporated by the Alabama legislature in 1852. The original boundaries included a one square mile area enlarged in 1860. Oxford became active as a cotton and trading center but during the Civil War growth slowed, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FW_creek-indian-campaign-memorial_Oxford-AL.html
A Memorial to
Gen. Andrew Jackson,
the Tennessee Patriots,
the Alabama Patriots, and
pioneers who by their
courage and fortitude in
1813 - 1814, won five successful
battles in the Creek Indian
Campaign.
Side inscription
We desire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20FV_town-of-hobson-city-alabama_Anniston-AL.html
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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM101P_anniston-world-war_Anniston-AL.html
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 …