Bon Secour salt works
Salt works, Bon Secour, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Bon Secour, Alabama
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- Marker only
BON SECOUR SALT WORKS
The works covered a square mile on both sides of the Bon Secour River, with 55 furnaces holding 990 pots. They made 1,980 bushels of salt a day.
Then
The works covered a square mile on both sides of the Bon Secour River, with 55 furnaces holding 990 pots. They made 1,980 bushels of salt a day.
Now
Marker only
A marker stands on River Road near the mouth of the Bon Secour River.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 27 miles from the center of Bon Secour.
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