Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. From 1882 to 1971 Sloss Furnaces operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace. The furnaces were designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 1981. Sloss became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved for public use after it closed.
Sloss now serves as an interpretive museum of industry ,hosts a nationally-recognized metal arts program and host festivals and concerts. Walking through Sloss you can’t help but feel like you’re back in time and can clearly imagine the huge furnaces heated with workers all over the area. The stacks tower high and the furnaces are the size. My favorite part of sloss Furnaces is the tunnel underground where trains used to move under the furnace.
There are so many different parts to Sloss it is hard to wrap your mind. One of my favorite views of Sloss Furnaces is from the bridge where you can walk beside the furnaces without entering. Surrounding the area are old buildings, small old houses and strange formations. There are also awesome old cranes and a graveyard of old equipment.
You can see from this picture here of a holding are where water once was cooled down and in person it reminds me of a old graveyard.
Colonel James Withers Sloss founded the Sloss Furnace Company in 1880 and began construction of Birmingham’s first blast furnace. The first blast happened in April 1882 producing 24,000 tons of high quality iron in the first year. Sloss Furnaces produced iron for 90 years in Birmingham , Alabama and one of the biggest contributors of economic development in the area.
