The Free Banking Era | The Story of Money, Episode 7

First Firing of my Springfield Model 1863 Rifle Musket

335K views · 6.2K reactions | This now abandoned mine was opened before the American Civil War. In 1863, production shifted to supply coal to the blast furnaces that were producing munitions for the confederacy. After the war, it took many years to rebuild the south’s infrastructure and industrial economy, so it sat abandoned. During the 1890s, it was reopened, and eventually shuttered in the early 1930s | Underground Birmingham | Facebook