Deeply rooted in Birmingham history and Southern industrialization, Sloss Furnaces is a beautiful preservation of a time past and testament to those who labored here and helped build the Magic City. Sloss Furnaces operated in Birmingham, Alabama from 1882-1970 and it was once the largest manufacturer of pig iron in the world. Sloss is the only twentieth-century blast furnace in the United States to be preserved and restored for public use. Sloss Furnaces transformed coal and