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The Magic City
1871
Birmingham, Alabama
Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Iron ore, coal and limestone, everything needed to make steel, lie within a few miles of each other here and almost nowhere else on earth. Speculators founded a city at a railroad crossing to exploit it, and it grew so fast it was nicknamed the Magic City.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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