From the ground to the roof, metal scaffolding surrounded the stately old Clay County Courthouse in the summer of 1999, as long-delayed renovation work was finally under way.
July 21, 1949, in The Star: An outstanding example of a young veteran/farmer who’s making the most the Vocational Agricultural Training School at Jacksonville is William Lloyd Etherton, who bought 272 acres of land in the foothills of Colvin Mountain near the Oak Grove Church community when …
The Anniston City Commission in July 1949 was mulling over a petition from Crescent Motors Inc to increase the bus fare on city bus lines from six cents to ten cents.
Alabama Secretary of State Jim Bennett, the new president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, in July 1999 was pushing for regional presidential primaries.
Whether he was known for his top secret military background, his hometown generosity or as the man who drives a Rolls-Royce, the late Farley Berman occupied a unique niche in Anniston business and culture.
By the time he died in July 1999, businessman and civic leader Rudy Kemp was known as a model citizen for the Model City.
Army officials moved closer in mid-July, 1999, to beginning the cleanup of Fort McClellan’s thousands of acres.
During the course of a four-hour blaze that broke out July 15, 1949, exploding drums of oil severely hampered firefighters' efforts to put out the flames that eventually destroyed Russell Saddle Company in Oxford.
The Nonnenmacher house was sold to a private firm in July 1999.
Regional Medical Center on July 12, 1999, shelled out $440,000 to the city of Anniston for a 2.7-acre parking lot along Eighth Street.
Firmly entrenched in Calhoun County’s sports calendar, the latest version of the Sunny King Charity Classic ended July 11, 1999.
Master Sergeant Wilbur Atkinson (Ret.) is an army veteran who served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars on the front lines of battle. Having grown up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina, he volunteered to join the Army and served as a rifleman. Atkinson and two of his sons, Tim and Mike, sh…
Jimmy C. “Big Daddy” Henson was known as a peacemaker even after a relatively short time serving on the Oxford City Council, 1996-99.
Public and private construction projects were ongoing in earnest in 1949 in the Anniston area.
Local officials in the summer of 1999 were telling the federal government that if it wants to build an incinerator here, fine, but we need proper incentive for our aggravation and inconvenience.
Jacksonville State Teachers College had plans to set up a college extension service in Anniston beginning with the fall quarter of 1949.
In July 1999 it seemed that doctors' offices might become a component of the downtown service sector, thanks to space available in the old Hudson's building.
Offering a safe place for off-road vehicle riders to scoot along, the Kentuck ORV Trail was carved out of a section of Talladega National Forest in the early 1990s.
Mrs. Eva B. Purefoy of Talladega bought the Noble Arms, an Anniston boarding house located at 11th and Leighton, in July 1949.
July 4, 1949, in The Star: A Clay County minister who said he had been threatened with an attack by mob violence verbally lashed out at hooded mobs from his pulpit yesterday. The Rev. Frank Ledford, former civilian chaplain at Fort McClellan and now pastor of the Ashland First Methodist Chur…
Due to the number of reports about racist violence in Clay County during the summer of 1949, by early July the state was getting involved in an effort to halt the perpetrators.
Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, was in Anniston yesterday to speak to members of the congregations of four Anniston churches.
Can you sell an old car by how much it weighs? In 1949 you sure could try.
On June 30, 1949, a Methodist minister in Ashland said he estimated that 25-30 people had felt the lash from masked and unmasked gangs within the last six weeks.
The Anniston City Council annexed 21 acres of land adjacent to North American Bus Industries Inc. on June 28, 1999, paving the way for a speculated expansion of the bus manufacturer.
