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    Alabama Blast Furnaces
    Alabama Blast Furnaces
    Alabama Blast Furnaces
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    Alabama Blast Furnaces

    By Joseph H. Woodward and James R. Bennett

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    Go to resource on all the furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry
     
    This work is the first and remains the only source of information on all blast furnaces built and operated in Alabama, from the first known charcoal furnace of 1815 (Cedar Creek Furnace in Franklin County) to the coke-fired giants built before the onset of the Great Depression. Woodward surveys the iron industry from the early, small local market furnaces through the rise of the iron industry in support of the Confederate war effort, to the giant internationally important industry that developed in the 1890s. The bulk of the book consists of individual illustrated histories of all blast furnaces ever constructed and operated in the state, furnaces that went into production and four that were built but never went into blast.
     
    Written to provide a record of every blast furnace built in Alabama from 1815 to 1940, this book was widely acclaimed and today remains one of the most quoted references on the iron and steel industry.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity Alabama Press
    Release dateSep 26, 2008
    ISBN9780817381011
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      Alabama Blast Furnaces - Joseph H. Woodward

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      PIONEER ERA

      1815-1861

      IN 1815—four years before Alabama was admitted to the Union—the first blast furnace was erected in the state.

      So closely integrated with community life was this and other blast furnaces built during this pioneer era of Alabama’s iron industry, that any chronicle of these iron makers must be set against the frontier background of this early period in the state’s history.

      In 1815, and for many years thereafter, North Alabama was a frontier where life was crude and extremely simple. Much of this section of the state was then a wilderness. Cherokee, Chickasaw and Creek Indians still roamed the forests. Such settlements as had come into existence were largely along navigable rivers. These were self-contained communities in most of which were found a blacksmith shop, a tanyard and a general store. Transportation was largely by river, despite floods and drought. Such roads as existed were impassable during much of the year to all but the man on horseback. Steamboats plied upstream to bring the products of civilization and returned downstream with raw materials from the frontier. As early as 1824 they carried cargoes up the Tennessee river to the shoals at Florence. An interesting sidelight on the price of importations from New Orleans is furnished by this price list of commodities, published in the Enquirer of Tuscumbia in

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