Mary Lee Mine

The top photo is entitled "Coal mine at Lewisburg,  Alabama. Some of the settlers on homesteads work here."  It was taken in February, 1937, by Rothstein, for the FSA/OWI.

This 1937 (top) photo was a riddle, until I received an email from a "e-friend" in Fultondale, AL.  She said there was a large picture in the Library there that I should see.  The library staff was very helpful, and now you see it here (bottom image), courtesy of the Library and modern technology.

There was also a local history booklet that I read quickly and hope to devote some more time to soon.

I think that I have learned that there was a Mary Lee Mine that closed due to flooding about 1913.  There was a Lewisburg No. 1 mine that closed about 1919, after WWI ended.  And there was a Lewisburg No. 2 mine, located between Lewisburg and today's Fultondale which operated until the 1940's or 50's.  It is shown at left.

See the previous second aerial photo for another view of this site.  Tailings pile was noted by some to be the "tallest manmade mountain in the world."  It was later removed.

A Masonic Lodge donated this photo to the Library, and I thank them for it.

Plaque on the photo, top.

Plaque on the photo, bottom.

Details of mine site photo

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