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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B40_the-blast-furnace_Birmingham-AL.html
In the blast furnace the combination of iron ore, flux (limestone and/or dolomite), coke, and hot air produced molten iron and two waste products: molten slag and blast furnace gas. The molten products collected in the bottom of the furnace and we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3Z_stock-trestle-tunnel_Birmingham-AL.html
Construction of the stock trestle/tunnel complex was part of the extensive modernization that Sloss carried out between 1927 and 1931. Much of the work focused on mechanizing the charging operations and equipment—the stock trestle/tunnel com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2S_south_Birmingham-AL.html
At the turn of the last century, Birmingham residents seeking home ownership and escape from the smoke, congestion, and unhealthy living conditions of an industrial city, began moving south. New streetcar lines encouraged the move "over the mounta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2R_birmingham-district-minerals_Birmingham-AL.html
The availability of seemingly limitless mineral resources was the key to the success of the Birmingham District, an area defined by geologic deposits that span five counties (Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, Walker and Bibb). Some of the minerals es…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2Q_building-the-park_Birmingham-AL.html
Side 1 - Building the Park
In the mid-1930's, civic leaders worked to move Vulcan to a place of honor on Red Mountain. The park was built through the combined efforts of several groups: the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham, the Birmingham Parks and R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2O_the-works-progress-administration_Birmingham-AL.html
The WPA (Works Progress Administration) funded the design and construction of Vulcan Park in the late 1930s. This was done in conjunction with the Alabama Highway Department's improvement of U.S. Highway 31, the major north/south route that runs a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2M_the-lone-pine-mine_Birmingham-AL.html
You are standing in front of the entrance to Lone Pine Mine Number 3. This mine is one of over one hundred ore mine on Red Mountain that were active between 1860 and 1960.
In the early twentieth century, iron ore was extracted from this mine a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2L_industry_Birmingham-AL.html
Heavy industry, the reason for Birmingham's founding, is still an economic force here today. Foundries and pipe plants dot the landscape, the railroad runs through the city's center, and steam rises periodically in the distance from the quenching …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2K_a-new-city_Birmingham-AL.html
The arrival of two railroad lines in Jones Valley opened nearby deposits of iron ore, limestone, and coal to commercial development and helped make Birmingham one of the great industrial cities of the post Civil War South.
In 1871, the year of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B2J_before-birmingham-jones-valley_Birmingham-AL.html
Red Mountain, where you are standing, and Jones Valley, which stretches before you, were sites of human activity long before Birmingham's founding in 1871.
Native American presenceRecorded history and archaeological evidence indicate the presen…