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this is furnace number one museum education coordinator. It stands about 83 ft tall and puts out about 450 tons of iron *** day. Sounds like an awfully fancy name for *** tour guide, I've been giving tours here about six or seven years but ty mullah Ghani seems to know everything there is to know about Sloss furnaces, the ingredients were loaded in from the top and the industry that gave Birmingham its nickname. The Magic City pig iron production in the state of Alabama grew over 1000% just within 10 years after Birmingham was created in 18 71. So this iron industry really is the reason why Birmingham's here. Sloss products were shipped all around the world, *** highly successful business, but there's more to the story than just pig iron and profits. There's *** ghost that lives here. What you're about to hear is based on true events about *** real person. Theophilus, Calvin Jowers moved to the Magic City like thousands of others to make money to support his family due to lack of government regulation. This was dangerous work Jowers wife wanted him to quit, but his heart was in the iron industry And he loved working at the furnaces. It was his pride and joy and he said, as long as there's *** furnace in Jefferson County, I'm going to be working there. At one point, there were 28 furnaces burning in Jefferson County and Jowers actually worked at Alice furnaces, but there was an accident and he fell into the molten iron. The furnace was so hot, there was next to nothing left of his body. However, the legend passed down from his family from, from generation to generation is that the only thing they were able to pull out of the furnace is his heart. And according to legend, his ghost was seen working side by side with employees moving from furnace to furnace as businesses across the area shut down. Now when that Alice furnace shut down in 1927 people started seeing him here at Sloss. So *** lot of the workers started feeling him here. Seeing him here working alongside the Iron Sloss furnaces was the last to stop production in 1971 but it's also the last one still standing again. As long as one is open, we're technically open so as long as one is open, he'll be there. So he still felt here in Birmingham Guy Rawlings WV TM 13 News