Four areas within the former Fort McClellan were added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 11, 2006. The National Register, administered by the National Park Service, is the Nation’s official listing of sites worthy of preservation and is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate and protect historic and archeological resources.

The areas included the Fort McClellan Post Headquarters Historic District encompassing Buckner Circle, Headquarters Avenue, and Drennan Drive; the WWII Housing Historic District, commonly called the 800 area of Berman Road, Bachelor Drive and Micron Way that includes the Barracks and Chapel; the Industrial Historic District, including the stables and blacksmith shop of warehouse district that has become home to the Mountain Longleaf Festival; and the Ammunitions Storage Historic District located off Pappy Dunn Boulevard.

Listing in the National Register contributes to preserving historic properties in a number of ways, including

• Recognition that a property is of significance to the Nation, the State, or the community.
• Consideration in the planning for Federal or federally assisted projects.
• Eligibility for Federal tax benefits.
• Qualification for Federal assistance for historic preservation, when funds are available.

According to the Register nomination form "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. . . Fort McClellan itself is representative 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 of being 'the military showplace of the South.'"

Aerial view of Fort McClellan in 1950 with Post Headquarters (JPA Building) on the left, parade grounds, and Chemical Corps Training Headquarters and Post Hospital.

*Photos and registry information courtesy of David Schneider of Schneider Historic Preservation, LLC.

Officer's Club - "Perhaps the most beautiful office's club in the entire third Army area is Fort McClellan's Remington Hall." 1953

Blacksmith shop stable addition, January 1934.

NCO Family Quarters - "Among the finest CO family quarters in this section of the country are these one-family units on the NCO Circle of post head quarters. Like other buildings in the post headquarters area, these units are in the Spanish mission-type style of architechture." 1953.

Aerial view of Buckner Circle showing Remington Hall on the left, 1950.