29 comments

  1. Daniel Norwood

    Worked there many times as Construction Super.

  2. Travis McAlpin

    spent many of days fishing there

  3. Daniel Sims

    Misty Sims

  4. Karen Studdard

    My grandfather welded the rings onto one a ladder on the smoke stack.

  5. Debra Miller

    Christy Hayes Beem

  6. Harolyn Reeves

    that is nice haven’t been in that area are y’all over there now

  7. Alan Irvin

    Jamie

  8. Deanie K Hughes Crisler

    Jeff Crisler

  9. Anthony Holcomb

    Wonder how many tons of ash we hauled out of there so far?

  10. Willette Frazier

    My Dad worked there in the 1940’s. We lived there for several years. A lot of cinders in the air. I am a native of Walker County, Alabama.
    My thoughts remain there. Sweet Home, Alabama.

  11. Sherry Yielding Nelson

    Rode by there not too long ago! Went all the way to my Mom’s place at Averitt’s Camp just below the new I-22 overpass. Takes 1.5 hours by water on a slow Pontoon! Beautiful ride!

  12. Walt Riley

    I spent a number of years working there.

  13. Jerry Hopper

    Stephen L. Speed Butch Brooks Jim BaButch BrooksJim Bates

  14. Linda Martin Goodwin

    My Dad worked there in early ’50’s, they had some experimental “Gasfication” project when we lived there. one morning KABOOM it blew it’s stack and sent black soot everywhere, my Mother and me and my little brother were outside in the front of the house, my Dad having worked the nightshift was sleeping in a back bedroom, we ran in, found him, still sleeping and covered in black soot, (no a/c then, windows open) needless to say, he never lived that down, we always said and it was the truth, he could sleep thru ANYTHING! Sweet memories…..

  15. Horace Page

    I have hauled lot and lots of coal there back in the day.

  16. Gregory D. Spruill

    I’ve actually minned the coalfines impoundment and reclaim for the EPA at gorgas steam moved a lot of coal there myself

  17. Michael Barnett

    Permanently closed as of April.

  18. Frances Simmons Hughes

    My Mother said part of the property used for this plant had been owned by her parents.

    1. Frances Simmons Hughes

      I don’t know if the power company paid for the land or just took it. I don’t imagine it was more than 40 acres….but it meant a lot to them.

  19. Judd Hamilton

    Good story. Thank you for sharing.

  20. Jerry Hopper

    I worked there and raised my family was a awesome job a lot of great friends worked their it sad to know its not making power anymore
    Boilermakers Lo/108 Birmingham Ala

  21. Jerry Hopper

    Thank you for sharing this story

  22. Gregory D. Spruill

    Where that picture was taken was the coal finds impoundment that I removed from 2000 to 2010 took the dam down and reclaimed/longleaf pine saplings for the EPA and now if you went back there today you would never know that the coal was ever even there on that bluff and impoundment behind TW Martin Elementary School yeah imagine that I worked in Coal Mines in Alabama

  23. John Cork

    While working for APCO I visited that plant in the late 70s for a possible internal job promotion. I recall walking through the switch-house (older plants had separate operators for steam production and electrical switching) and there were these HUGE light bulbs on top of the panels labeled 1, 2, etc. to show when the generators were on line. Like walking through an operating museum.

    1. Michael Gilbreath

      Is this located close to West Jefferson power plant is now?

    2. John Cork

      Michael Gilbreath You must be referring to Miller Power Plant which isn’t too far away but is on Locust Fork. Both plants’ locations were determined by the proximity of water and coal mines.

    3. Ron Mele

      John Cork Now Miller gets coal from Powder River mines.

    4. John Cork

      Ron Mele Yep, it isn’t economical to burn high sulfur coal.

  24. Ashleigh Boone Maddox

    Chris Maddox

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