The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama

CONTENTS

CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Xlll PREFACE TO THE 2011 EDITION xv INTRODUCTION XXVll CHAPTER I - THE PLANTING OF THE SEED CHAPTER II - RECORDS OF EARLY GROWTH 12 CHAPTER III -FIRST FURNACE AND FIRST RAILROAD 27 CHAPTER IV - EARLY RECORDS OF JEFFERSON AND WALKER COUNTIES 40 CHAPTER V - IRON MAKING AND COAL MINING IN TUSKALOOSA COUNTY, 1830-1861 58 CHAPTER VI - BIBB AND SHELBY COUNTIES, 1820-1861 70 CHAPTER VII - PIONEER IRON MAKING IN NORTHEASTERN ALABAMA, 1830-1861, AND FIRST STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 82 CHAPTER VIII - EARLY RAILROAD ENTERPRISES 104 CHAPTER IX - INTERNAL CONDITIONS OF STATE AND OUTBREAK OF WAR 121 CHAPTER X - CONFEDERATE ARSENAL AND NAVAL FOUNDRY 134 CHAPTER XI - COAL MINING IN CIVIL WAR PERIOD 149 CHAPTER XII - IRON MAKING IN WAR PERIOD 157 CHAPTER XIII - IRON MAKING IN WAR PERIOD (continued). THE FALL OF SELMA 178 Vlll CONTENTS CHAPTER XIV -RESURRECTION OF THE IRON WORKS 1866-1870 195 CHAPTER XV - THE FOUNDING OF A GREAT WORKSHOP TOWN, 1869-1872 215 CHAPTER XVI - RECONSTRUCTION OF OXMOOR AND ADVENT OF LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD INTO ALABAMA 1872-1873 238 CHAPTER XVII - LIFE SAVING MEASURES 1873-1878 255 CHAPTER XVIII - BIRMINGHAM MILITANT 1876-1880 266 CHAPTER XIX -A CHAPTER OF PROGRESS 1880-1886 283 CHAPTER XX - THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES 187(}-1890 309 CHAPTER XXI - THE GREAT BOOM OF BIRMINGHAM 1886-1887 330 CHAPTER XXII - MORE BIG BUSINESS 1886. RECORDS OF SLOSS IRON AND STEEL COMPANY AND PIONEER MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY 347 CHAPTER XXIII - ADVENT OF TENNESSEE COMPANY INTO ALABAMA (1886) AND ITS EARLY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS 360 CHAPTER XXIV - A SERIES OF LIVELY INCIDENTS IN THE BIRMINGHAM AND SHEFFIELD DISTRICTS 1887 394 CHAPTER XXV - THE MARCH OF THE T. C. I. 1888-1895 420 CHAPTER XXVI - AFFAIRS OF BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT 189(}-1909. BIRMINGHAM COAL AND IRON COMPANY. DIMMICK PIPE COMPANY. SOUTHERN IRON AND STEEL COMPANY. SLOSS-SHEFFIELD STEEL AND IRON COMPANY 436 CHAPTER XXVII - PRESENT DAY AFFAIRS OF BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT (continued). HISTORY OF THE T. C. I. (continued). ORGANIZATION OF ALABAMA CONSOLIDATED COAL AND IRON COMPANY 461 CHAPTER XXVIII - THE MAKING OF WALKER COUNTY. PRATT CONSOLIDATED COAL COMPANY, GALLOWAY COAL COMPANY, CORONA COAL COMPANY, EMPIRE COAL COMPANY AND OTHERS 488 CHAPTER XXIX - THE TRIUMPH OF THE T. C. I. 507 ...