Shelby Iron Park is located at the heart of the area.

At this time, Shelby was connected to Columbiana by the Shelby Iron Company Railroad, which allowed the iron works to be connected to the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad.

A detachment of General Emory Upton's division of Wilson's Raiders destroyed the ironworks on March 31, 1865.

It did not appear again as a separately returned community until 120 years later in 2010 as a census-designated place.

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