Red Mountain Park Hike in Birmingham AL

Star and I hiked the loop trail for a total of a little over 5.5 miles. Didn't know any of the background about this park before we started. As we were walking I saw a sign about the railroad that was in this area. Then later saw infrastructure from an iron ore mining operation here. The mine was called Eureka 1. In 1864, Wallace McElwain built the Irondale Furnace (Cahaba Iron Works) and supplied it with iron ore via tramway from the nearby Helen Bess mine. Union troops, led by General James H. Wilson, destroyed both furnaces as they swept through Alabama late in the war. The mines were later rebuilt and eventually bought by U.S. Steel. The last mine closed in 1971.

[@rrswitch48]

Cool modeling bait on that walk!

[@RickS727]

I thought the same thing.

[@gerardgrohe4622]

Interesting stuff you saw along the trail. The weather looks great there.

[@rrswitch48]

There's Jerry!😁

[@RickS727]

Jerry, the weather has been great and those things I saw were totally unexpected.