The New Student's Reference Work/Bessemer, Ala.

Bessemer, Ala., a city in Jefferson County, in the center of an iron-producing region, on the Louisville &. Nashville and other railroads,11 miles southwest of Birmingham. Its industries embrace large iron and steel works, blast furnaces, foundries, rolling and planing mills, machine shops and fire brick works. There are coal as well as iron mines in the vicinity. Population (1910), 10,864.