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Non-functional remains of old steel and iron sites can be found around Birmingham, such as the Ensley Steel Works, established in 1889 by Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad. Once a large plant employing more than 1,000 people, it has been abandoned since 1984, and is now overgrown.