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Title
Tannehill Stone Furnace
Subject
Furnaces
Civil War
State Parks
Iron foundries
Description
One of two furnaces built at Tannehill in 1862. The furnaces were massive, 30-foot high truncated pyramids constructed of 400-pound sandstone blocks topped by brick draft stacks.
The furnaces were badly damaged at the end of the Civil War. The Tannehill facility was targeted for destruction as part of Union General James' raid into Alabama.
The remains of the furnaces, among the best preserved in the South, are the centerpiece of the 1,500-acre Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, created by the Alabama Legislature in 1969 as a memorial to the state's early iron industry.
The furnaces were badly damaged at the end of the Civil War. The Tannehill facility was targeted for destruction as part of Union General James' raid into Alabama.
The remains of the furnaces, among the best preserved in the South, are the centerpiece of the 1,500-acre Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, created by the Alabama Legislature in 1969 as a memorial to the state's early iron industry.
Source
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Contributor
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Photograph
Identifier
314
Coverage
Tuscaloosa County (AL)
Original Format
Photograph