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The story begins with Daniel Hillman, an experienced furnaceman from New Jersey, who located a forge on the banks of Roupes Creek in 1830. Hillman's Forge would give way to a larger bloomery under management of noted Southern ironmaster Moses Stroup, then to three charcoal blast furnaces that would make the Tannehill site an important center of pig iron production for the Confederacy during the Civil War. As the war drew to an end, units of the 8th Iowa Cavalry raced into the furnace yard on March 31, 1865 and knocked from production one of the Selma Arsenal's most productive iron suppliers. The battery of high stone furnaces, equipped with hot blast stoves and steam power, was rated at 22 tons a day. When Croxton's Raiders left the site in flames moving on to Tuscaloosa, the work place where 600 slaves and white mechanics had been busily engaged the day before, fell strangely silent. From its toppled stones, however, would emerge in the 1870s a place called Birmingham, the "Pittsburgh of the South." The Tannehill site, subject of six major archaeological investigations from 1956 to 1995, would reveal important advances in furnace design conflicting with earlier assumptions that so

Author

James R Bennett; Alabama Historical Ironworks Commission

Publisher

Alabama Historic Ironworks Commission, Mccalla, Alabama

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780967445519