Pratt Homesite

Historical marker location:

Prattville, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and Gin Shop Hill Road, on the right when traveling west on Bridge Street.)

Marker installed: 1999

Circa 1842.

The city of Anniston, Alabama was the site of one of the most violent incidents of the Civil Rights Era. In 1961, a bus carrying Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists, was attacked and set on fire by a mob in Anniston.