Confederate Salt Works, Morehead City
Salt works, Morehead City, North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Morehead City, North Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Marker only
CONFEDERATE SALT WORKS
This was the largest Confederate salt works in Carteret County, operating at Morehead City from 1861 to 1862. Union forces burned the works in April 1862.
CONFEDERATE SALT WORKS
The largest Confederate salt works in Carteret County was 50 yards S. It was burned by Union forces in April, 1862.
C-49Carteret County
Then
This was the largest Confederate salt works in Carteret County.
Union forces burned the works in April 1862.
Now
Marker only
A state highway marker (C-49) stands at Port Terminal Road and South 3rd Street, 50 yards north of the site.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
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