Country United States County Jefferson Area code(s) 205 Elevation 143 m | State Alabama Time zone Central (CST) (UTC−6) GNIS feature ID 116311 Local time Tuesday 4:35 PM | |
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Coalburg is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. Coalburg was home to coal mines first developed by John T. Milner, who sold them in May 1883 to the Georgia Pacific Railway. Edward Magruder Tutwiler became the superintendent of the mines. Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company operated coke ovens at Coalburg during this time. At its peak, the Coalburg mines produced four thousand tons of coal per day. 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.
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Map of Coalburg, AL 35068, USA
A post office was operated in Coalburg from 1883 until the 1980s.
Demographics
Coalburg was listed on the 1890 U.S. Census with a population of 842.