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ANNISTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 74 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city and the See also:county seat of See also:Calhoun county, See also:Alabama, U.S.A., in the See also:north-eastern See also:part of the See also:state, about 63 m. E. by N. of See also:Birmingham. Pop. (1890) 9498; (1900), 9695, of whom 3669 were of See also:negro descent: (ioro See also:census) 12,794. Anniston is served by the See also:Southern, the Seaboard See also:Air See also:Line, and the See also:Louisville & See also:Nashville See also:railways. The city is situated on the slope of See also:Blue See also:Mountain, a See also:chain of the Blue See also:Ridge, and is a See also:health resort. It is the seat of the See also:Noble See also:Institute (for girls), established in 1886 by See also:Samuel Noble (1834—1888), a wealthy See also:iron-founder, and of the Alabama Presbyterian See also:College for Men (1905). There are vast quantities of iron ore in the vicinity of the city, the Coosa See also:coal-See also:fields being only 25 M. distant. Anniston is an important manufacturing city, the See also:principal See also:industries being the manufacture of iron, See also:steel and See also:cotton. In loos the city's factory products were valued at $2,525,455. An iron See also:furnace was established on the site of Anniston during the See also:Civil See also:War, but it was destroyed by the federal troops in 1865; and in 1872 it was rebuilt on a much larger See also:scale. The city was founded in 1872 as a private enterprise, by the See also:Woodstock Iron See also:Company, organized by Samuel Noble and Gen.

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Daniel See also:Tyler (x799—1882); but it was not opened for See also:general See also:settlement until twelve years later. It was chartered as a city in 1879.

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