Historical Marker
Elmore County Training School
Historical marker location:
202 Lancaster Street, Wetumpka, Alabama
( Marker is on Lancaster Street, 0.1 miles north of Holtville Road (Alabama Route 111), on the right when traveling north.)
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.