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Anniston
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Anniston (ăn`ĭstən), city (1990 pop. 26,623), seat of Calhoun co., NE Ala., in a mining region of the Appalachian foothills; inc. 1873. Its manufactures include soil pipes, textiles, lumber, bricks, cabinets, and vaccines. Founded (1872) as an ironmaking "company town," it was opened to the public in 1883. The Anniston Army Depot is the site of a chemical weapons disposal facilty. Nearby Fort McClellan, headquarters of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) until 1978, was central to Anniston's economy until its closing in 1999 and is undergoing redevelopment.
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In West Anniston, Alabama, that's resulted in Black women dying from cancer in their 30s.
Trashing Black communities by Hernandez, Daisy / Colorlines Magazine
95 Hardcover TD427 Anniston, Alabama suffers from cancer rates some 25 percent above the state norm, a fact that community activists linked to pollution from the local Monsanto chemical plant and to the federal government's depot for chemical weapons.
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All that is keeping a bike trail in Anniston, Alabama, from connecting to one in Georgia is the completion of a bridge in a neighboring county.
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