The historic resources of Anniston are representative of the efforts of the south to achieve the goal of revitalization following the War Between the States. This revitalization was based on an economy that emphasized industrialization although not turning away from agriculture on which the prewar economy was based. Anniston is an excellent example of the melding of Northern capital and Southern resources by men from both regions who were striving to bind the wounds caused by the past conflict and to rebuild the economically depressed South.
Anniston achieved prominence as one of the New South's early planned industrial towns. The town was also an early example in Alabama of the concept of "welfare capitalism" which was held by many industrialists, both North and South, during the last quarter of the 19th century. Under this concept the company, in this case the Woodstock Iron Company founded by Samuel Noble and Daniel Tyler, provided the necessities of life, located in pleasant surroundings, in an effort to upgrade the status of its workers and their families as a means of insuring increased productivity. - NPS
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