Ensley and Tuxedo Junction

by Mary Allison Haynie and David B. Fleming

Book Overview

With dreams of building a vast steel production operation, Memphis planter Enoch Ensley founded a city in the wooded valley at the heart of Jefferson County, Alabama. He named the city Ensley, after himself, and established the Ensley Land Company to acquire and develop 4,000 acres for industrial facilities and a town. As field workers left their farms to work in steel mills and businesses sprang up on the valley floor, Ensley became a diverse place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531658067
• ISBN13: 9781531658069
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"