ANNISTON - Wonderful Growth of This Beautiful City
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Article Title:The Huntsville Weekly Democrat
Article Date:March 12 1884
Article Description:ANNISTON - Wonderful Growth of This Beautiful City
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ANNISTON
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Wonderful Growth of This Beautiful City
Anniston, Ala., March 3, 1883[sic]
Editor Advertiser.—I am not in the habit of writing letters but can not refrain from sending a few dots concerning the progress and improvements of this beautiful town (Anniston) and know that the enterprising spirit of the Advertiser will not be averse to chronicling the growth and advancement of any part of Alabama.
A few years ago, the ground on which Anniston is located was a barren field.Mr. Samuel Noble, while riding through the country, was the first man to discover the great advantages if offered for a manufacturing town.He induced Mr. Tyler, of Charleston, South Carolina, to join him in the manufacture of iron at this place, and the result is a beautiful city of over 5,000 inhabitants, and it has the prospect of being the largest manufacturing city in Alabama.The E. T. V & Georgia Pacific railroads cross at this point.—The Anniston and Atlanta (a narrow gauge railroad) is being built from this point to Syllacoga, on the East Alabama and Central railroad, twenty-five miles of which have been completed, and over which trains are now running.The road is now being surveyed and will soon be built to Gadsden, Ala., where it will tap the Alabama Great Southern.
Anniston is a beautiful city, situated in a delightful valley, surrounded by peaks of the Blue Ridge mountains, which contain vast and inexhaustible beds of iron ore, limestone and slate.
Six months ago, the town was thrown open to the public, and the following are some of the enterprises now in operation:
The Noble Brothers have built and are now operating the largest car wheel works in the South.
The Anniston car shops are now completed and they are manufacturing anything, from a hand car to a Pullman palace car.
We have two large furnaces, and the capacity of one has just been doubled, a large iron foundry has just been moved here and is in operation.
The largest cotton factory in the State is here, consuming over 7,000 bales annually.
A first National Bank, with a capital of $100,000, forms one of the city’s conveniences.
A beautiful opera house has just been completed; and a large flourishing flour and grist mill adorn the city.
Many large and elegant brick stores are now completed, and worker on others started.
The bank is to have large, fine, new building.
The largest and finest hotel in the South is being built at an enormous cost, new churches are rearing their domes to the sky, at the cost of tens of thousands.
Ice factories, water works, electric lights, and all the improvements of a modern city are here already.
The town is crowded with visitors every day, and people from any part of the South are crowding here to invest and alive.These are plain facts about Anniston without any exaggeration, as can be seen by any one coming here.Prohibition prevails in this county, and is having a happy and salutary effect; this, together with the delightful climate, healthy and pure atmosphere, makes it a most desirable city to live or invest in.The streets are the most beautiful of any city in the South and have cost many thousands of dollars to place them in their present condition.
Many fine and beautiful residence are built, and are being built, which will ever be an ornament to the city.The present advancement and progress of the city are due to the nurturing efforts of Messrs. Noble & Tyler, who spare no trouble or expense to make this city the garden spot of the South.
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AL-Old-News
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