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Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark and industrial museum at 20 32nd Street North in Birmingham, Alabama. The site operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882, just eleven years after Birmingham's founding, until 1971, making it one of the longest-operating blast furnaces in the country. After citizens campaigned to save it from demolition, Birmingham voters approved a 3.3-million-dollar bond issue in 1977 to preserve the site, and it became a National Historic Landmark i...