Historical Events
of southwest Jefferson County, Alabama

 If you would like to submit a story or article of a historical event that occurred in southwest Jefferson County,
please email David Reed

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• Hueytown School Burns 
                                                  (Hueytown Elementary burns down in 1949)

• 1905 Virginia Mines explosion    (southwest of Hueytown; now within the city limits of Hueytown)
               (linked to GenDisasters.com website; need a volunteer to research the Birmingham & Bessemer newspapers)

• 1910 Palos No. 3 coal mine explosion   (near the present-day town of West Jefferson; next to the Jefferson-Walker county line)
               (linked to GenDisasters.com website; need a volunteer to research the Birmingham & Bessemer newspapers)

• 1922 Dolomite mine disaster   (east of Hueytown, part of the Woodward Iron Company coal mines)
               (linked to GenDisasters.com website; need a volunteer to research the Birmingham & Bessemer newspapers)