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A historical, critical and sometimes whimsical look at the stories and characters from Anniston, the Model City of Alabama.
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Average audio length:
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English
United States
10 episodes
since April 10, 2020
episodic
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Violence has always been an enemy of law enforcers in Anniston, Alabama, but in 1914-15 that truth reached new heights. Over an eight-month span, six Anniston Police Department officers were shot and killed in a spasm of violence directly related to bootlegging and illegal saloons in the city. Twic…
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In 1952, the Army disregarded the advice of a top officer and decided to hold open-air biological warfare tests at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama. In those tests the Army used two different bacterial agents that seem to have led to elevated rates of pneumonia cases among Anniston residents tha…
Sam Noble and Daniel Tyler, the founders of Anniston, Alabama, wanted to create a utopian factory city in the postwar New South that not only made them money but kept vice from creeping onto its streets. But they failed. As soon as the city was opened to the public in 1883, Anniston became known fo…
When the founding families of Anniston, Alabama, laid out the city's street grid, they named its largest road after C.T. Quintard, an Episcopal priest who served as a Confederate Army chaplain during the Civil War. But why? Quintard had no true connection to Alabama or Calhoun County -- other than,…
If Anniston's politicians and newspaper had their way, the Army post created in 1917 during World War I wouldn't have been named after Union Gen. George B. McClellan of the Civil War. McClellan was a Philadelphian who graduated from West Point and had no connection to Alabama -- plus, he was a Yank…
In 1888, William Edmonds, editor of The Hot Blast newspaper in Anniston, Alabama, began a scorched-earth editorial crusade against vice and bootlegging in the city. He didn't make friends with the police (who were corrupt) and the bootleggers (who didn't want their revenue curtailed by a journalist…
The story of Anniston’s role in the Freedom Riders civil rights story is well known. But while racial violence was taking place in the city on Mother’s Day 1961, many Annistonians were oblivious and attended church, played golf and visited with their families.
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The founders of Anniston, Alabama, installed the city’s first 24 ordinances in 1877 and designed them to shape behaviors, uphold morals and keep rotting animals from fouling downtown. (Seriously.)
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Historians don’t know much about Annie Scott Tyler, who gave her name to the city of Anniston, Alabama. But we can learn snippets about her life by examining her background, her fascinating Confederate father and her social circle.
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An introduction to Annie’s Town, a new podcast about Anniston, Alabama, a quirky and frustrating Deep South city and its historical cast of characters and catalog of stories.
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