DeBardeleben Coal Corporation
Henry F. DeBardeleben was an anomaly among Alabama industrialists. Not only was he a native of the state, but his roots were rural-neither of these a factor predicting industrial greatness in antebellum America. However, as a ten-year-old orphan and bakery worker in Autauga County, he became the ward of Alabama's pioneer industrialist, Daniel Pratt. Young Henry's ability to observe, absorb, and apply served him well under such a master. But his innate and distinctively Southern tendency toward wild speculations could never be attributed to the tutelage of Pratt, the conservative New Englander who held to the work ethics of his own birth region.
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enry Fairchild DeBardeleben (1840-1910) was a Confederate veteran and southern industrialist, once called the "King of the Southern Iron World", and the founder of the city of Bessemer, Alabama. He developed and controlled significant coal and coak interests in the central Alabama region, making extensive use of rail to interchange outgoing coal with major railroads. DeBardeleben Coal Corporation rail operations existed into the 1960s.
1929 sales ad / Birmingham Public Library
from Classic Trains magazine - Spring 2006 / collection
DeBardeleben Coal #30
Vulcan 2-4-2T / Sipsey, Al / May 1928 / collection
DeBardeleben Coal #3566
Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
DeBardeleben Coal #3566
1 of 14 built in 1929
to DeBardeleben Coal #3566
Holt, Al / Jul 1957 / collection
Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
DeBardeleben Coal #18
wooden coal hopper / Holt, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
DeBardeleben Coal #3525
Holt, Al / collection
DeBardeleben Coal #3525
1 of 55 built 1921-27
to DeBardeleben Coal Corp #3525
to Stone Mountain Scenic #3525
to Carter Cash Enterprises #3525
to NC Transportation Museum
as Southern Railway #1894
to Tanglewood Park, Clemmons NC
Spencer, NC / Jun 1991 / JCH
Spencer, NC / Jun 1991 / JCH
postcard / collection
Clemmons, NC / Dec 2020 / RWH
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Clemmons, NC / Dec 2020 / RWH
Clemmons, NC / Dec 2020 / RWH
Clemmons, NC / Dec 2020 / RWH
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Clemmons, NC / Dec 2020 / RWH
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Links / Sources
- Wikipedia article for Henry F. DeBardeleben