List of furnaces
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This is a list of furnaces in the Birmingham District.
- This is an incomplete and growing list.
Civil War and before
- Little Cahaba Furnace No. 1 (c. 1848)
- Shelby Furnace No. 1 (Spring 1849)
- Tannehill Furnace No. 1 (1859 - 1861)
- Bibb Furnace No. 1 (1861)
- Shelby Furnace No. 2 (March 1863)
- Bibb Furnace No. 2 ([[1863])
- Little Cahaba Furnace No. 2 (c. 1863)
- Oxmoor Furnace No. 1 (November 1863)
- Tannehill Furnace No. 2 (1863)
- Tannehill Furnace No. 3 (1863)
- Irondale Furnace (1863 - 1864)
1870s - 1880s
- Oxmoor Furnace No. 2 (Fall 1873)
- Edwards Furnace (June 10, 1880)
- Alice Furnace No. 1 (November 23, 1880)
- Sloss Furnace No. 1 (April 12, 1882)
- Mary Pratt Furnace (1883)
- Alice Furnace No. 2 (July 24, 1883)
- Woodward Furnace No. 1 (August 17, 1883)
- Sloss Furnace No. 2 (October 1883)
- Williamson Furnace (October 1886)
- Woodward Furnace No. 2 (January 26, 1887)
- Ensley Furnace No. 4 (April 9, 1888)
- Thomas Furnace No. 1 (May 15, 1888)
- Ensley Furnace No. 3 (June 5, 1888)
- Bessemer Furnace No. 1 (June 1888)
- Sloss Furnace No. 3 (October 1888)
- Ensley Furnace No. 2 (December 1, 1888)
- Sloss Furnace No. 4 (February 1889)
- Ensley Furnace No. 1 (April 29, 1889)
- Bessemer Furnace No. 2 (April 1889)
- Trussville Furnace (April 1889)
1890s - 1900s
- Thomas Furnace No. 2 (February 22, 1890)
- Vanderbilt Furnace No. 1 (August 23, 1890)
- Robertstown No. 1 Furnace (1890)
- Robertstown No. 2 Furnace (1890)
- Little Bell Furnace (1890)
- Ensley Furnace No. 5 (November 15, 1900)
- Thomas Furnace No. 3 (June 13, 1902)
- Holt Furnace (August 1, 1903)
- Ensley Furnace No. 6 (April 28, 1905)
- Woodward Furnace No. 3 (June 23, 1905)
- Vanderbilt Furnace No. 2 (May 8, 1908)
1910s - 1920s
After founding of Birmingham
- Little Alice Furnace, 1880-1927. Birmingham. Henry F. Debardeleben
- Big Alice Furnace, 1883- . Birmingham. Henry F. Debardeleben
- Little Bell Furnace, 1890-1906, 1917-1919. Bessemer. Debardeleben Coal and Iron Company
- Thomas Furnace #1, 1888- . Thomas. Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing Company
- Thomas Furnace #2, 1890- . Thomas. Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing Company
- Thomas Furnace #3, 1902- . Thomas. Republic Iron and Steel Company
- Sloss Furnace #1, 1882-1927. Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- Sloss Furnace #2, c1885-1927. Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- 1927 Sloss Furnace #1, 1927-1971. Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- 1927 Sloss Furnace #2, 1927-1971. Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- Sloss North Birmingham Furnace #1, 1887-1950s. North Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- Sloss North Birmingham Furnace #2, 1887-1950s. North Birmingham. Sloss Furnace Company
- Ensley Furnace #1, 1899- Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Ensley Furnace #2, Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Ensley Furnace #3, Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Ensley Furnace #4, Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Ensley Furnace #5, Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Ensley Furnace #6, Ensley. U. S. Steel
- Bessemer Furnace #4, 1888- . Bessemer. Pratt Coal and Iron Company
- Bessemer Furnace #3, 1888- . Bessemer. Pratt Coal and Iron Company
- Bessemer Furnace #2, 1888- . Bessemer. Pratt Coal and Iron Company
- Bessemer Furnace #1, 1889- . Bessemer. Pratt Coal and Iron Company
- Trussville Furnace, 1889-1918. Trussville, Birmingham Furnace and Manufacturing Company
- U. S. Steel Fairfield Works, 1910- Fairfield. U. S. Steel
- Woodward Furnace, Woodward, Woodward Iron Company