Last week I was at a training for work in Anniston, AL. We were staying at a facility on the old Ft. McClellan army base. The army base was closed in 1999 but I think a lot of these buildings were abandoned long before that. I love seeing how quickly nature reclaims places after the people leave. There were tons of deer and wild turkeys there. It was also teeming with fireflies which I thought was amazingly cool since I've never lived anywhere but the west coast.
Lovely rock bridge in Anniston, Al. with 2 Canadian Geese near bench.
These are the buildings in between Town Center Dr and Halifax Ave. They are going to waste. I hope the people that were stationed out here enjoys this video....
Calhoun County, AL Listed: 11/08/2006 The Fort McClellan Post Headquarters Historic District is significant under National Register Criterion A and C. Historically, the district served as the primary headquarters, officers' quarters and permanent barracks core of Fort McClellan, a 45,680-acre U.S. Army facility established as a National Guard Training camp in 1917 and upgraded to a permanent fort in 1929. Closed in 1999, Fort McClellan was a major military installation for more than eighty years during which time it was also an integral part of the economy and the community character of the City of Anniston. Generations of American men and women received their military training at McClellan and the fort's trainees have fought in every military conflict from World War I through the present. During World War II alone, almost one-half million soldiers were trained at McClellan. Architecturally the district is representative of the development of military facility planning in the early 20th century, a time during which "an outstanding group of city planners, architects and landscape designers who were trained in the principles of the City Beautiful and Garden City movements" were employed to create military installations that met high standards for both functionality and aesthetics. This attention to design detail coupled with McClellan's natural setting at the base of the Choccolocco mountain range combined to earn the fort the reputation for being "the military showplace of the South." The combination of function and aesthetics was carried throughout the Post Headquarters Historic District and many of its individual contributing resources are excellent examples of period military design. The period of significance for the district extends from 1930 through 1941 and reflects the construction dates of its earliest and latest contributing extant buildings. The Fort McClellan Post Headquarters Historic District includes sixty-three contributing resources that date from 1930 to 1941. As a group these buildings formed the headquarters, officers' quarters and permanent barracks core of the former military base. The design and layout of the district's resources are consistent with the overall planning that typified the fort's development during this period. The Historic Resources of McClellan are significant in community planning and development as an important early example of the application of community design principles to standardized military construction. This 1930s breed of military posts was a deviation from previous patterns of grid development, although McClellan's World War I heritage also had an impact on the shape it was to take. The intervening period of neglect during the 1920s, a result of stringent federal cutbacks, was to be followed in 1926 by the largest military construction appropriation since the war. Major General B. Frank Cheatham, the Quartermaster General, began his program of nationwide post improvements in the late 1920s with an outstanding group of city planners, architects and landscape designers who were trained in the principles of the City Beautiful and Garden City movements. These expenditures to create a permanent peacetime military establishment came later to Fort McClellan than to its regional counterparts such as Fort Benning in Georgia, but they soon earned it a reputation as the military showplace of the South. During the Depression, the well-funded construction programs were replaced by assistance channeled through New Deal social programs, and these buildings also very much define the character of fort. National Register of Historic Places
Alabama Hotel Anniston, AL
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Soldiers who were stationed at Fort McClellan have turned up with diverse and serious health problems. It is time to take care of them.
The bill would require a database be made of all soldiers who came through Ft. McClellan from January 1, 1935 to May 20, 1999. Also, all living parties would be
Fort McClellan Army Base In Anniston Alabama (Watts & Truitt homes were where Ft Clellan is now until 1918.)
Duncan McClellan’s fascination with glass began at age five, when he visited a glass factory in West Virginia. Duncan never forgot the image of the glowing, molten mass being formed by an expert craftsman. After successfully working with leather and clay
McClellan Tellone, a Seattle based architecture, landscape, and interior design firm, led by Regan McClellan and Christopher Tellone, was founded in 1997 with a dedication to providing contemporary custom residential design solutions tailored to the unique needs of our clients.
McCLELLAN HOUSE 919 Taos St. National Register 12/5/1972, 5CC.11 "The circa 1875 residence is an unusual 1¾-story front gabled roof building with the main entrance located toward the front of a side wall. One of the earliest buildings in Georgetown, it was constructed with whip-sawed boards applied vertically. Window and door frames and the large wooden quoins were planed and shaped by Erskine McClellan in his wood-working shop that stood at the rear of the property. McClellan was an important local figure who served in a variety of civic posts. His McClellan Opera House was destroyed by fire in 1892."--Description from the Colorado Historical Society website.
McClellan Oscillator is a technical indicator used to determine the sentiments in the stocks or indices trading
McClellan Saddle
A beautiful fall maternity session at Petros Park in Canton, Ohio with Ashley and Nate McClellan Erin Davison Photography. Mama's dress was borrowed from the Studio Wardrobe collection and is available with all booked sessions. Akron Photography for maternity, newborns, and family.
The quilter formerly known as My Quilt Diet
It still doesn't look comfortable to me, guys.
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