Wenonah

The Wenonah community was the name of a series of Red Mountain Ore mining camps for employess of the Tennessee Coal and Iron (TCI) company. The camps were desiginated as: Wenonah Camp #6; #7; #8; #9 and #10. The oldest was Wenonah Camp #6 as listed on the 1916 Birmingham Mining District maps. Number 6 was next to the Woodward Iron Company's camp #2 on their western boundry and was the location of the water resovoir that in about 1947 was replaced with a covered water tank, now owned by the Bessemer Water Works. The resovoir/tank is located in the Lipscomb area of Jefferson County Alabama.