A 1937 photo taken of the general store for iron ore miners in Muscoda in Jefferson County. The community was established in the early 1900s by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company and was part of a red ore mining operation along Red Mountain. Today, Muscoda — a name taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Song of Hiawatha” — is a residential neighborhood. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Business Alabama.
