Sloss Blast Furnaces
Sloss Blast Furnaces is a factory in Jefferson, Alabama. Sloss Blast Furnaces is situated nearby to the neighborhood Avondale, as well as near the town Mountain Brook.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sloss Blast Furnace Site and Birmingham Museum of Art.
Sloss Blast Furnace Site
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 500 feet northwest of Sloss Blast Furnaces.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Museum
Saint Paul’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Saint Paul — informally known as Saint Paul's Cathedral — is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Birmingham in Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama. Saint Paul’s Cathedral is situated 1 mile 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
Photo: Patrick Cain, CC BY 3.0.
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
Photo: Robert Donovan, CC BY 2.0.
Mountain Brook is a city 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: Factory
- Also known as: “Sloss”
- Categories: historic site, historic building, and industry
- Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.52072° or 33° 31′ 15″ northLongitude
-86.79083° or 86° 47′ 27″ westElevation
623 feet (190 metres)Open location code
865MG6C5+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 2419103229OpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=worksGeoNames ID
7304666
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