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Fort McClellan. Coordinates: 33°42′39″N 85°44′14″W. Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million ...
Fort McClellan, Alabama. Coordinates. 33°44′43″N 085°46′50″W / 33.74528°N 85.78056°W / 33.74528; -85.78056. Map. Location of Fort McClellan Army Airfield. Fort McClellan Army Airfield is a closed military airfield located 6 mi (9.7 km) north-northeast of Anniston, Alabama, United States.
Website. Mountain Longleaf NWR. The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern ...
01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www.annistonal.gov. Anniston is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]
The depot is located in Calhoun County, Alabama, 10 miles (16 km) west of Anniston. It covers 25 square miles (65 km 2) of land, or 15,200 acres (6,200 ha). [4] Its northern side is the Pelham Range portion of Fort McClellan. The central and northern portions of the depot span over 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) and serve as an ammunition storage area.
Apr. 17—The day before U.S. and British forces began air strikes in Afghanistan, members of the Alabama State Defense Force gathered at a military base to begin training — not for war, but to ...
The first class of civilian emergency responders graduated in late 1995, and civilian responders continued to train at the Army facility until 1998 as Fort McClellan continued its closure transition. Elected officials from across Alabama and local community leaders continued to seek ways to utilize the soon-to-be-abandoned Army facility.
The 36th Field Artillery Regiment was organized on 7 August 1918 at Camp McClellan, Alabama, as a 155 mm howitzer regiment, and assigned to the 12th Division. It reached a peak strength of 1,733 men, 40 horses, and 12 155mm howitzers, organized as a regimental headquarters battery and six firing batteries. The regiment trained for combat but ...