ANNISTON  , a

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

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