| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
ArmesEthel, 1876-1945 |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| Published: |
University of Alabama Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (683 p.). |
| Subject: |
Iron industry and trade - Alabama - |
| Subject: |
Coal mines and mining - Alabama - |
| Subject: |
Mines and mineral resources - Alabama - |
| Subject: |
Alabama - Economic conditions - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817385774/ |
| Notes: |
Includes index |
| ISBN: |
9780817385774electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780817356828pbk. |
| Content Note: |
The planting of the seed -- Records of early growth -- First furnaceand first railroad -- Early records of Jefferson and Walker counties -- Iron making and coal mining in Tuskaloosa county, 1830-1861 -- Bibb and Shelby counties, 1820-1861 -- Pioneer iron making in northeastern Alabama, 1830-1861, and first state geological survey -- Early railroad enterprises -- Internal conditions of stateand outbreak of war -- Confederate arsenal and naval foundry -- Coal mining in Civil War period -- Iron making in war period -- Iron making in war period (continued) : the fall of Selma -- Resurrection of the iron works 1866-1870 -- The founding of a great workshop town, 1869-1872 -- Reconstructionof Oxmoor and advent of Louisville and Nashville railroad into Alabama 1872-1873 --Life saving measures 1873-1878 -- Birmingham militant 1876-1880 -- A chapter of progress 1880-1886 -- The northeastern counties 1870-1890 -- The great boom of Birmingham 1886-1887 -- More big business 1886 : records of Sloss Iron and Steel Company and pioneer mining and manufacturing company -- Advent of Tennessee Company into Alabama (1886) and its early trials and tribulations -- A series of lively incidents inthe Birmingham and Sheffield districts 1887 -- The march of the T. C. I. 1888-1895 -- Affairs of Birmingham district 1890-1909 : Birmingham Coal and Iron Company : Dimmick Pipe Company Southern Iron and Steel Company : Sloss-sheffield Steel and Iron Company -- Present day affairs of Birmingham district history of the T. C. I. (continued) : organization of Alabama consolidated coal and iron company -- The making of Walker County : Pratt Consolidated Coal Company, Galloway Coal Company, Corona Coal Company, Empire Coal Company and others -- The triumph of the T. C. I |