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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The Sloss Furnaces contain the ghosts of some of the darkest moments in Birmingham’s history. And it’s all still there today, being relived by those who won’t — or can’t — leave it behind.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin |
0:06.1 | Manky. |
0:07.1 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:13.4 | You might say that Birmingham, Alabama, was faded to become a center of industry, a |
0:19.2 | place made rich by manufacturing products and shipping them across the globe. |
0:24.5 | But all of that prosperity came at a cost, a human cost. |
0:29.7 | Birmingham quickly became a center of iron production, but smelting all that iron |
0:35.0 | ore was a laborious job that was deathly dangerous. |
0:39.7 | Men sustained terrible injuries and were sometimes cooked alive from exposure to the molten iron. |
0:46.8 | And as racial inequity and hostility toward black Americans grew, the burden those men |
0:51.8 | bore became disproportionately more perilous. |
0:55.4 | The sloths furnaces contain the ghosts of some of the darkest moments in Birmingham's |
1:00.2 | history, and it's all still there today, being relived by those who won't or can't leave |
1:06.8 | it behind. |
1:08.7 | I'm Amy Bruney, and this is Haunted Road. |
1:18.1 | When Birmingham was founded in 1871, its planners envisioned a rich future in an Appalachian |
1:25.0 | Valley in North Central, Alabama, the city sat at the crossroads of two railroad lines |
1:30.6 | on one of the world's richest mineral deposits. |
1:34.2 | Hopes to establish a town with considerable industry were so high that investors in the |
1:39.5 | Elleton Land Company, the founding company of the city, named it after Birmingham, England, |
1:45.1 | the epicenter of the iron industry in the UK. |
1:48.8 | The plan worked, thanks in large part to sloths furnaces, a processing plant that extracted |
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