Ala. Code § 41-9-320: Creation; Purpose.

(a) There is hereby created the Tannehill Furnace and Foundry Commission to establish, operate and maintain as a state park or historic site the land and buildings in the County of Tuscaloosa where one of the state’s early ironworks, known as the Tannehill Furnace and Foundry, was located.

(b) The purpose of the commission shall be to preserve, restore, maintain, and promote as a state park or historic site the land and relics of the Tannehill furnace and, in recognition of the important part played by the iron and steel industry in the development of this state, to exhibit this old furnace as an example of the process of making iron in this state’s early days.