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Dunbar High School | Photo © 2024 www.abandonedalabama.com

Dunbar High School

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, originally Bessemer Colored High School, was a public school for African-American students that operated in Bessemer, Alabama, from...

Sweet Home | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

Sweet Home

The Sweet Family Sweet Home, also called the Sweet House, is the former home of Henry Wilson Sweet Sr., Bessemer’s first undertaker and a furniture dealer. He was born on September 19, 1866...

Bessemer First Methodist Church | Photo © 2023, www.abandonedalabama.com

First Methodist Church of Bessemer

Short History of Bessemer, Ala. The town of Bessemer was founded during the Reconstruction Era by the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, named after Henry Bessemer and owned by coal magnate Henry...

The Vintage Station | Photo © 2021 Bullet, www.abandonedalabama.com

The Vintage Station

Southern Railway Depot was built in 1916 and is located a block away from the Bessemer Freight Depot. Bessemer Hall of History Located in Bessemer, the Vintage Station was built in 1917 originally as...

Memorial Mound | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedalabama.com

Memorial Mound

Clyde Booth Memorial Mound was the brainchild of Clyde Booth, who used to dig graves as a teenager in Kentucky with his uncle. He witnessed firsthand graveyard neglect, from deteriorating caskets to...

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