Muscoda Red Ore Mining Community, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL
Summary
Significance: The Muscoda Red Ore Mining Community included the finest concentration of worker housing and company-built community facilities in the District. Two schools, a church, medical dispensary, doctor's house and teachers' cottages document company-operated social welfare programs of the 1910s and 1920s. The community also reveals a diversity of building types which reflects the hierarchy of the labor force and a clearly delineated, geographically separated racial organization.
Survey number: HAER AL-90
Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1917 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Tennesse Coal & Iron-U.S. Steel, Red Ore Mining
Benz, Sue, transmitter
Location
alabama, 33.40178, -86.95444
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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