Tannehill Ironworks
Ironworks, McCalla, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- McCalla, Alabama
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- State historic site
TANNEHILL IRONWORKS
Three charcoal blast furnaces could make 22 tons of pig iron a day, most of it shipped to the naval gun works and arsenal at Selma. Three companies of the 8th Iowa Cavalry burned the furnaces on March 31, 1865.
Then
Three charcoal blast furnaces could make 22 tons of pig iron a day, most of it shipped to the naval gun works and arsenal at Selma. An adjacent foundry cast kettles and hollow ware for Southern troops.
Three companies of the 8th Iowa Cavalry burned the furnaces on March 31, 1865.
Now
State historic site
The furnace ruins are the center of Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park, which includes the Iron and Steel Museum of Alabama.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 1.0 miles away.
Nearby
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- 29 miShelby Iron WorksConfederate · Ironworks, Shelby, Alabama
- 57 miWilson takes Selma and destroys its arsenal and naval foundryApril 2, 1865, Selma, Alabama