Iron and Steel - A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area Industrial Heritage

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look at the people and events that shaped Birmingham into one of America's leading steel centers. Heavily illustrated in color and historical black-and-white photographs, it can be used while visiting parks or read as a coherent volume before or after a visit.

About the author

James R. Bennett is a former Alabama secretary of state and newspaperman. An original appointee to the Tannehill Furnace and Foundry Commission in 1969 and a former executive director of the Tannehill Foundation, he authored Old Tannehill: A History of the Pioneer Ironworks in Roupes Valley, 1829-1865 and Historic Birmingham.
Karen R. Utz is Curator at the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark; author of "Goin' North: The African American Women of Sloss Quarters" in Work, Family, and Faith: Southern Women in the 20th Century, edited by Melissa Walker and Rebecca Sharples; and editor of Man Food: Recipes from the Iron Trade.

Product details

• Authors: James F. Bennett, James R Bennett, James R. Bennett, James R. (James Ronald) Bennett, Karen R Utz, Karen R. Utz
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2010
• EAN: 9780817356118
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5611-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Alabama, the Forge of History; Alabama, the Forge of History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories