The Chief Ladiga Trail is a rail trail in Alabama that stretches for 33 miles (53 km) from Anniston to the Alabama-Georgia state line. It is the state's first rail trail project.
Trail section in Cleburne County
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. Named "The Model City" by Atlanta newspaperman Henry W. Grady for its careful planning in the late 19th century, the city is situated on the slope of Blue Mountain.
Downtown Anniston in 2012
Child laborers at Anniston Yarn Mills, 1910. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Historic marker commemorating the Freedom Riders in downtown Anniston
The one-time world's largest chair in Anniston