Dilapidation of Birmingham

Mining at this site may have begun as early as 1865, at the end of the American Civil War. A man by the name of Billy Gould was one of the e...

Woodward Iron Company operated the Songo slope mine on Red Mountain. The mine opened sometime after 1880, when the Alice Furnace began opera...

In 1879, the Alice Furnaces Company opened and work began on the Alice Furnace near downtown Birmingham. in 1880, the Redding mine was opene...