Bartram's Trail

Historical marker location:

Sherling Lake Road, Greenville, Alabama

( Marker is on Sherling Lake Road (County Road 44) 1 mile west of Braggs Road (State Route 263), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2006

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.