Sloss Blast Furnaces

Sloss Blast Furnaces is a building in Jefferson, Alabama. Sloss Blast Furnaces is situated nearby to the neighborhood Avondale, as well as near the town Mountain Brook.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sloss Blast Furnace Site and Birmingham Museum of Art.

Sloss Blast Furnace Site

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Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. Sloss Blast Furnace Site is situated 690 feet north of Sloss Blast Furnaces.

Birmingham Museum of Art

Museum

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The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Birmingham Museum of Art is situated 1 mile west of Sloss Blast Furnaces.

Saint Paul’s Cathedral

Church

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The Cathedral of Saint Paul — informally known as Saint Paul's Cathedral — is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. Saint Paul’s Cathedral is situated 3,900 feet west of Sloss Blast Furnaces.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Avondale and Birmingham.

Avondale

Neighborhood

Avondale was a company town built around the Avondale Mills east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887.

Birmingham

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Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, and its cultural and economic nucleus. While it's best remembered as the site of protest, bombings, and other racial tumult during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, visitors to the Birmingham of today will find a pleasant green city of ridges, valleys, attractive views, and friendly, hospitable people.

Mountain Brook

Town

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Mountain Brook is a city located in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Birmingham. Its population at the 2020 census was 22,461. Mountain Brook is situated 2½ miles southeast of Sloss Blast Furnaces.

Sloss Blast Furnaces

Type: Building
Also known as: “blast furnace”
Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.52011° or 33° 31′ 12″ north

Longitude

-86.79222° or 86° 47′ 32″ west

Elevation

623 feet (190 metres)

Open location code

865MG6C5+24

OpenStreetMap ID

way 233538037

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

7304666

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