US Steel Pratt Convict Cemetery
Also known as Pratt City Mine Cemetery
Pratt City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
The Pratt City Convict Mines were owned and operated by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, a unit of US Steel Corp. These mines were notorious for their deplorable and inhumane conditions where primarily African Americans were routinely arrested on flimsy charges and sold to the company to work in their mines and lumber camps. The men lived shackled to their fellow inmates where they were forced to work in dangerous conditions. They slept chained in overcrowded and unsanitary bunkhouses.
These men died from disease or from accidents in the unsafe working conditions. They were all buried in unmarked graves. The cemetery is now overgrown and in a wooded area. There are no markers, but many graves can be found by the sunken depressions in the soil.
The Pratt City Convict Mines were owned and operated by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, a unit of US Steel Corp. These mines were notorious for their deplorable and inhumane conditions where primarily African Americans were routinely arrested on flimsy charges and sold to the company to work in their mines and lumber camps. The men lived shackled to their fellow inmates where they were forced to work in dangerous conditions. They slept chained in overcrowded and unsanitary bunkhouses.
These men died from disease or from accidents in the unsafe working conditions. They were all buried in unmarked graves. The cemetery is now overgrown and in a wooded area. There are no markers, but many graves can be found by the sunken depressions in the soil.
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Pratt City, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials2k+
- Percent photographed55%
- Percent with GPS14%
Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials294
- Percent photographed1%
- Percent with GPS0%
Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
- Total memorials17
- Percent photographed76%
- Added: 10 Jun 2016
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2614774
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