A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
Jackson, Alabama. Jackson is a city in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. The population was 5,228 at the 2010 census. It was one of three wet settlements in an otherwise-dry county.
Jackson is the capital of and the largest city in the state of Mississippi. It is located in Hinds County on the Pearl River, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico, and it is part of the Jackson Prairie region of the state.n Jackson, shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, civil rights activist and leader of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP, was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist.