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EXTERIOR VIEW, SIDE (WEST) AND FRONT ELEVATION LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Brierfield Furnace, State Highway 25, Brierfield Ironworks Park-Tannehill State Historical Park, Brierfield, Bibb County, AL
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Brierfield Ironworks Foundation
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EXTERIOR VIEW, SIDE (WEST) AND FRONT ELEVATION LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Brierfield Furnace, State Highway 25, Brierfield Ironworks Park-Tannehill State Historical Park, Brierfield, Bibb County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Bibb County; Brierfield
Date 1993
date QS:P571,+1993-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER ALA,4-BRIER,2-2
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  • Significance: The Brierfield charcoal blast furnaces, financed by the Confederate government, produced exceptionally good foundry iron suitable for casting into rifled cannons including the South's most important naval artillery piece: the Brooke cannon. Brierfield's brick-walled blast furnace built during Reconstruction produced the first commercial scale runs of coke pig iron in the state. This furnace, the base of which remains, marks the transition between charcoal-fired stone furnaces and modern steel-jacketed coke furnaces. Remaining foundations of Brierfield's Confederate-financed rolling mill are considered the most intact remnants of a wrought iron rolling mill in the state. The railroad linking furnace to mill also remains.
  • Survey number: HAER AL-30
  • Building/structure dates: 1861 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al0991.photos.046901p
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Object location33° 02′ 20″ N, 86° 54′ 32″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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