William Bartram Trail

Historical marker location:

10226 Hall Road, Grand Bay, Alabama

( Marker can be reached from Interstate 10, 2 miles east of Franklin Creek Road.)

Traced 1773-1777. Deep South Region.

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.