Thomas

This article is about the former municipality. For the current Birmingham neighborhood, see Thomas neighborhood.

Thomas is a former municipality, coinciding with the current Thomas neighborhood, one of Birmingham's 99 neighborhoods. The area, originally Williamson Hawkins' plantation, was purchased by David Thomas with his sons and Robert Sayre. They constructed the Thomas Furnaces for their Pioneer Mining & Manufacturing Corporation, which went into blast in 1888 and 1890.

References

• Two Industrial Towns: Pratt City and Thomas (February 1988) Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society