Editing Anniston, Alabama (section)

===Woodstock Iron Company===
[[File:1887 Perspective Map of Anniston Alabama.jpg|thumb|left|1887 map]]
[[File:Young sweeper working in Anniston Yarn Mills. Anniston, Ala. - NARA - 523357.jpg|thumb|left|Child laborers at Anniston Yarn Mills, 1910.  Photo by [[Lewis Hine]].]]

In 1872, the Woodstock Iron Company, organized by [[Samuel Noble (businessman)|Samuel Noble]] and Union Gen. [[Daniel Tyler]], rebuilt the furnace on a much larger scale,<ref name="EB1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Anniston|volume=2|page=74}}</ref> and started a planned community named Woodstock, soon renamed "Annie's Town" for Annie Scott Tyler, Daniel's daughter-in-law and wife of railroad president [[Alfred L. Tyler]].  Anniston was chartered as a town in 1873.<ref name=alabama>{{cite encyclopedia  | last =  Sprayberry  | first = Gary  | title = Anniston  | encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Alabama | url = http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1464 | access-date =January 8, 2010}}</ref>

Though the roots of the town's economy were in iron, steel, and [[Vitrified clay pipe|clay pipe]], planners touted it as a health resort, and several hotels began operating.  Schools also appeared, including the Noble Institute, a school for girls established in 1886,<ref>located [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=18321017201244668582,33.657879,-85.824970&q=33.657835,+-85.825807&ie=UTF8&ll=33.657884,-85.825807&spn=0.002192,0.003433&t=h&z=18 along Leighton Ave], on the corner of Leighton Ave and E 11th St., facing Christine Ave.</ref> and the Alabama Presbyterian College for Men, founded in 1905.<ref name="EB1911"/>  Careful planning and easy access to rail transportation helped grow Anniston. In 1882, Anniston was the first city in Alabama to be lit by electricity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.annistonal.gov/about-anniston/|title=About Anniston|website=Annistonal.gov|access-date=April 17, 2021}}</ref> By 1941, Anniston was Alabama's fifth largest city.<ref>Writer's Program. ''The WPA Guide to Alabama''. New York: Hastings House, 1941. p. 159. Republished in 2013 by Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX.</ref>