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The German Italian Memorial Cemetery at the Fort McClellan United States Army post is the burial site for 26 German and three Italian World War II enemy combatants who had been interned at Fort McClellan at their time of death. The rules and practices of disposing of deceased enemy combatants is dictated by International Humanitarian Law, as ...
01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www .annistonal .gov. Anniston is 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]
East Anniston Residential Historic District. / 33.66417°N 85.82250°W / 33.66417; -85.82250. The East Anniston Residential Historic District, in Anniston, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The listing included 396 contributing buildings on 137 acres (55 ha). [1]
Solutia and its parent company Monsanto agreed in 2003 to pay $700 million to settle claims by 20,000 Anniston, Alabama residents over PCB contamination. Monsanto documents indicate that the company routinely dumped PCBs in the land and water supply of Anniston and covered up its behavior for more than 40 years.
Dioxin. In a case that ran from February 1984 through October 1987, Monsanto was the defendant in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history, Kemner v. Monsanto. The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri.
Anniston Cotton Manufacturing Company. October 3, 1985. ( #85002739) 215 W. 11th St. 33°39′34″N 85°50′06″W. / 33.659444°N 85.835°W / 33.659444; -85.835 ( Anniston Cotton Manufacturing Company) Anniston. Demolished as of April 2014, now site of the Calhoun County Human Resources Department. 3.
Monsanto acquires the Swann Chemical Company in Anniston, Alabama, entering the business of producing PCBs on an industrial scale. 1936: Acquisitions: Monsanto acquires the Thomas & Hochwalt Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio, in order to acquire the expertise of Charles Allen Thomas and Dr. Carroll A. ("Ted") Hochwalt. The acquisition was ...
Freedom Riders National Monument. / 33.63500°N 85.90833°W / 33.63500; -85.90833. The Freedom Riders National Monument is a United States National Monument in Anniston, Alabama established by President Barack Obama in January 2017 to preserve and commemorate the Freedom Riders during the Civil Rights Movement.