Sloss Furnaces

Heather Guy gave a tour of the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, the only 20th-century blast furnace preserved as an industrial museum. She talked about its 90 years of iron production, the history of the iron industry in the region, and the importance of the Sloss Furnaces to the history of Birmingham, Alabama.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” in Birmingham, Alabama, on October 31-November 4 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Bright House Networks local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close