The New Student's Reference Work/Bessemer, Ala.

Bessemer, Ala., a city in Jefferson County, in the center of an -producing region, on the Louisville &. Nashville and other railroads,11 miles southwest of. Its industries embrace large iron and steel works, blast furnaces, foundries, rolling and planing mills, machine shops and fire brick works. There are as well as iron mines in the vicinity. Population (1910), 10,864.