Poplar Head Spring

Historical marker location:

251 East Main Street, Dothan, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street (Business U.S. 84) and Museum Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1978

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.