List of furnaces

This is a list of furnaces in the Birmingham District. The names are those used in Joseph Woodward II's Alabama Blast Furnaces (1940) and the dates are the first "blow in".

Civil War and before

• Little Cahaba Furnace No. 1, c. 1848
• Shelby Furnace No. 1, Spring 1849
• Tannehill Furnace No. 1, 1859-1861
• Bibb Furnace No. 1, 1861
• Shelby Furnace No. 2, March 1863
• Bibb Furnace No. 2, 1863
• Little Cahaba Furnace No. 2, c. 1863
• Oxmoor Furnace No. 1, November 1863
• Tannehill Furnace No. 2, 1863
• Tannehill Furnace No. 3, 1863
• Irondale Furnace, 1864-1871

1870s - 1880s

• Oxmoor Furnace No. 2 (Fall 1873)
• Edwards Furnace (June 10, 1880)
• Alice Furnace No. 1 (November 23, 1880)
• Sloss Furnace No. 1 (April 12, 1882)
• Mary Pratt Furnace (April 1883)
• Alice Furnace No. 2 (July 24, 1883)
• Woodward Furnace No. 1 (August 17, 1883)
• Sloss Furnace No. 2 (October 1883)
• Williamson Furnace (October 1886)
• Woodward Furnace No. 2 (January 26, 1887)
• Ensley Furnace No. 4 (April 9, 1888)
• Thomas Furnace No. 1 (May 15, 1888)
• Ensley Furnace No. 3 (June 5, 1888)
• Bessemer Furnace No. 1 (June 1888)
• Sloss Furnace No. 3 (October 1888)
• Ensley Furnace No. 2 (December 1, 1888)
• Sloss Furnace No. 4 (February 1889)
• Ensley Furnace No. 1 (April 29, 1889)
• Bessemer Furnace No. 2 (April 1889)
• Trussville Furnace (April 1889)

1890s - 1900s

• Thomas Furnace No. 2 (February 22, 1890)
• Vanderbilt Furnace No. 1 (August 23, 1890)
• Robertstown No. 1 Furnace (1890)
• Robertstown No. 2 Furnace (1890)
• Little Bell Furnace (1890)
• Ensley Furnace No. 5 (November 15, 1900)
• Thomas Furnace No. 3 (June 13, 1902)
• Holt Furnace (August 1, 1903)
• Ensley Furnace No. 6 (April 28, 1905)
• Woodward Furnace No. 3 (June 23, 1905)
• Vanderbilt Furnace No. 2 (May 8, 1908)

1910s - 1920s

• Fairfield Furnace No. 5 (June 25, 1928)
• Fairfield Furnace No. 6 (September 27, 1928)

References

• Woodward, Joseph II (1940) Alabama Blast Furnaces. Birmingham: Woodward Iron Company. reprinted 2007 by University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817354328

External links

• Category:Alabama at the Ironfurnaces.com wiki