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  1. Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. According to 2019 Census estimates, the city had a population of 21,287.

  2. Jan 19, 2024 · Founders Samuel Noble and Daniel Tyler envisioned the city, situated 60 miles east of Birmingham, as an idealized industrial and conservative Christian community, where workers would earn higher wages than their peers in the North and would resist the temptations of alcohol and gambling.

  3. Anniston is a city in, and county seat of, Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States. In 2020, the city had a population of 21,564. Chemical cleanup. In 2002, an investigation by 60 minutes showed Anniston was among the most toxic cities in the country. The main source of local contamination was a Monsanto chemical factory, which ...

  4. Anniston, city, seat (1899) of Calhoun county, eastern Alabama, U.S. It lies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Birmingham. Founded in 1872 by Samuel Noble, Daniel Tyler, and Tyler’s sons as a private industrial community (opened to the public in 1883), it.

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  5. Anniston became the first city in Alabama to be lighted with electricity in 1882, and was enjoying the convenience of telephones as early as 1884. Each year the list of industries, businesses, churches, and schools grew as people came to Anniston to live, work and prosper. In 1887 Woodstock Iron was reorganized to include The Anniston Pipe Works.

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