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Bessemer (Town in Jefferson co Ala)

a town in Jefferson co., Ala.; on several trunk railroads; 11 miles S. W. of Birmingham, the county-seat.

It was founded in 1887 as a manufacturing place because of the valuable iron and coal mines in its immediate vicinity. number of blast furnaces, machine shops, planing mills, iron pipe works, fire brick works and other works connected with the iron and steel industry. The city has a savings bank, several daily and weekly newspapers, library, hospital and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 10,- 864; (1920) 18,674.