Portier House

Historical marker location:

307 Conti Street, Mobile, Alabama

( Marker is at the intersection of Conti Street and West Claiborne Street, on the left when traveling west on Conti Street.)

Marker installed: 1973

Circa 1833.

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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.