Coalburg is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.
Coalburg, Alabama | |
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  Coalburg  Coalburg | |
| Coordinates: 33°35′37″N 86°51′26″W / 33.59361°N 86.85722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Jefferson |
| Elevation | 469 ft (143 m) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| Area code(s) | 205, 659 |
| GNIS feature ID | 116311[1] |
History
editCoalburg was home to coal mines first developed by John T. Milner, who sold them in May 1883 to the Georgia Pacific Railway.[2] Edward Magruder Tutwiler became the superintendent of the mines. Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company operated coke ovens at Coalburg during this time.[3] At its peak, the Coalburg mines produced four thousand tons of coal per day.[4] Overall, the Coalburg mines produced over 186,000 tons of coal. Sloss used convict labor to work in the Coalburg mines, with 320 men working in 1889. As the mines grew, the number of convicts used to work in the mines increased. The coal mined at and coke produced in Coalburg was sent to Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham to be turned into pig iron.[5]
In 1890, eleven miners were killed in a mine explosion.[6]
A post office was operated in Coalburg from 1883 until the 1980s.[7]
Demographics
edit| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 1890 | 842 | — | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[8] | |||
Coalburg was listed on the 1890 U.S. Census with a population of 842.[9]
Notable people
edit- Ed Sherling, Major League Baseball pinch hitter and pinch runner who played in 1924 with the Philadelphia Athletics
- Guy Tutwiler, first baseman who played two seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1911, 1913)
References
edit- ^ "Coalburg". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Causey, Donna R (December 16, 2013). "Biography: John Turner Milner born 1826 with photograph". Alabama Pioneers. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- ^ Burchard, Ernest Francis; Butts, Charles; Eckel, Edwin Clarence (1910). Iron ores, fuels, and fluxes of the Birmingham district, Alabama – Ernest Francis Burchard, Charles Butts, and Edwin Clarence Eckel – Google Books. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ^ Armes, Ethel (2011). The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama. University of Alabama Press. p. 438. ISBN 9780817356828.
- ^ Lichtenstein, Alex (1996). Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the .. – Alex Lichtenstein – Google Books. ISBN 9781859840863. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
- ^ Flynt, Wayne (February 5, 2016). Poor But Proud. 2843: University of Alabama Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "Jefferson County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
- ^ "Statistics of Population - Minor Civil Divisions 1880 and 1890 - Alabama" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 1890. pp. 52–59.
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