By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
July 2, 1890
In the 1850s and 1860s, industrialist Horace Ware established Shelby Iron Works, which built the first rolling mill in Alabama. During the Civil War, the iron works supplied iron to the Confederate Naval Arsenal at Selma. The mill operated through April 1865, when Union forces destroyed the machinery. Ware was able to entice Northern investors to help rebuild the business after the war, however, focusing on the manufacturing of rail car wheels. He retired in Birmingham, where he died on July 2, 1890.
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