"A fiery process is required to make the fuel to fire the blast furnaces. Here a supply of coke is pushed from one of a battery of coke ovens. After cooling, the fuel--actually coal which has been 'cooked' for several hours and separated from...
"In most cases, limestone, the cleansing agent used in the iron and steel making processes, is quarried from open pits. But the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company in Birmingham, Alabama, mines it from an underground slope. Here a car of...
Moore enlisted with Morgan's Partisan Rangers, a unit of Wheeler's Cavalry, at age 13; because of his young age, he was sent home after a year of fighting. He attended the Virginia Military Institute after the war and graduated in 1873.
"Cut between steep embankments, the road winds down from the Old Spanish Fort and begins a five-mile stretch over the Cochrane Bridge and causeway, the longest highway water span in the state. Beyond the bridge is the Bankhead Tunnel, 3400 feet of...