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- Title
Annotated listing of new books.
- Abstract
This article presents information on the book " The Model City of the New South: Anniston, Alabama 1872-1900," by Grace Hooten Gates. This book tells the story of Anniston, Alabama, an iron-producing, textile-manufacturing, industrial town born in Reconstruction days that came to be known far and wide as the "Model City," for an industrialized South. It Discusses Anniston's founders, Samuel Nobel and General Daniel Tyler, who from 1872 to 1883 used their corporations' profits to build a private company town. It examines Anniston's transformation to a public town beginning in 1883. Addresses production and economic growth and development in Anniston, discussing the original Woodstock Company enterprises; the diversification of the economy; and how the local economy responded to the cyclic national economy. It draws on the federal census, city directories, and early voting records to construct a profile of the Anniston population-where they came from, their race, sex, and age and other information.
- Subjects
ANNISTON (Ala.); ALABAMA; UNITED States; MODEL City of the New South, The (Book); GATES, Grace Hooten; LITERATURE; BOOKS
- Publication
Journal of Economic Literature, 1996, Vol 34, Issue 3, p1471
- ISSN
0022-0515
- Publication type
Article