Alabama helped power America’s growth with coal and iron — but it came at a cost most history books barely mention. From Brookwood to Pratt City, mining towns weren’t just workplaces, they were company-controlled communities. Did your family build Alabama’s coal industry, or did they pay the price for it? Alabama Alabama travel Sweet home Alabama Alabama the beautiful Coal mines Alabama history Brookwood Alabama Coal miners Birmingham Alabama Birmingham Steele #alabamahistory #alabamatravel #coa
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Exploring Alabama’s Hidden Iron Mines | Forgotten History Beneath Birmingham This weekend I joined my friend Jeff, who’s been exploring old mines for over 50 years, to experience something I’ve never done before — going underground into one of Alabama’s historic iron ore mines. These tunnels date back to the late 1800s and once helped power Birmingham’s rise as an industrial city. No script. No production. Just raw exploration, quiet history, and the incredible stories that still echo undergroun
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This now abandoned mine was opened before the American Civil War. In 1863, production shifted to supply coal to the blast furnaces that were producing munitions for the confederacy. After the war, it took many years to rebuild the south’s infrastructure and industrial economy, so it sat abandoned. During the 1890s, it was reopened, and eventually shuttered in the early 1930s | Underground Birmingham
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One of the very first coal mines in the state of Alabama. The Irish Pit was opened in the 1850s predating the American Civil War, and according to all reports, closed in the 1890s. Finding this information may change some history, miner’s initials carved in 1908. #abandoned #urbex #history #underground #fyp #civilwar #coal | Underground Birmingham
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