Civil Municipal Magazine Aug 2023

41 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 That’s a rail trail that stretches for 33 miles, going from Anniston to the Alabama-Georgia state line. It is the State of Alabama’s first rail trail project. A rail trail is a shared-use path on a railway right- of-way. They are usually constructed after a railway has been abandoned and the track taken up. As for its namesake, Chief Ladiga was a Muscogee tribal leader who gave up his people’s ancestral lands when he signed the Treaty of Cusseta in 1832––part of a broader policy of Indian removal perpetrated against tribes in the South (especially the Cherokee) by the administration of Andrew Jackson. Ladiga sold half of his land (now modern-day Jacksonville, Ala.) to land speculators for a mere $2,000. And Anniston’s new gift of money will also help make possible a new downtown farmers’ market and a new city hall in a new location (that of a former federal courthouse, located on Noble Street: the city’s main thoroughfare). ANNISTON, ALA .