A Few Still Stand
Five of the seven stacks that still stand at the old blast furnace complex in Ensley, on the southwest edge of Birmingham, Ala.
There are a bunch of smaller stacks that were knocked down and left where they fell, and are now being overtaken by brush.
If you look at historical photos of this sprawling facility, there's dozens of stacks and a pall of pollution hanging overhead. You can imagine the smells and sounds, too. But today it's quietly reverting to nature, and seems relatively clean, not counting whatever is hidden in the soil from a century of steel production.
A Few Still Stand
Five of the seven stacks that still stand at the old blast furnace complex in Ensley, on the southwest edge of Birmingham, Ala.
There are a bunch of smaller stacks that were knocked down and left where they fell, and are now being overtaken by brush.
If you look at historical photos of this sprawling facility, there's dozens of stacks and a pall of pollution hanging overhead. You can imagine the smells and sounds, too. But today it's quietly reverting to nature, and seems relatively clean, not counting whatever is hidden in the soil from a century of steel production.