Perdido Vineyards

Historical marker location:

22100 CR-47, Perdido, Alabama

( Marker is on County Road 47, 0.4 miles east of Interstate 65, on the right when traveling east.)

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.