“ALABAMA

CHARCOAL

Alabama Furnace, Alabama Iron Company, Alabama Furnace, Talladega county.  One stack, 41 1/4 X 8 3/4, built in1873; hot blast; ore, brown hematite; open top, with thimble; product, strictly neutral car-wheel pig iron; annual capacity, 6,000net tons. Stephen S. Glidden, President and Manager; Horace Ware…”

Reference Data:

Directory of Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada, by American Iron and Steel Institute and American Iron and Steel Association, 1880, page 50