Historical Marker
Taylor Field
Historical marker location:
2150 Ray Thorington Road, Pike Road, Alabama
( Marker is on Ray Thorington Road (County Road 75) 0.8 miles west of Pike Road (County Road 85), on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1993
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.