Shelby Iron Works
Ironworks, Shelby, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Shelby, Alabama
- Years
- 1862-1865
SHELBY IRON WORKS
Shelby iron plated the ironclads Tennessee, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa and went into cannon and shells cast at Columbiana. A detachment of Upton's division destroyed the ironworks on March 31, 1865.
Then
Shelby iron plated the ironclads Tennessee, Huntsville and Tuscaloosa and went into cannon and shells cast at Columbiana.
A detachment of Upton's division destroyed the ironworks on March 31, 1865.
Now
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 5 miles away.
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