“323.  Camp Branch Bloomary Forge, situated eight miles southwest of Columbiana, owned and managed by Horace Ware.

Columbiana P.O. Shelby county Alabama , built in 1851, completed in 1853, had 1 pudding fire and 1hammer driven by water, and made in 1855 perhaps 40 tons of blooms.”

Reference Data:

The Iron Manufacturers Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills, by Peter Lesley and American Iron and Steel Association, 1859, page 1956