Cane Patch and Withers Swash salt works
Salt works, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
CANE PATCH AND WITHERS SWASH
Workers boiled seawater in wood-fired kettles at Cane Patch and Withers Swash to make salt for the Confederate war effort. Union Marines from USS Ethan Allen destroyed the Cane Patch works on April 23, 1864, and the Withers Swash works the next day.
Then
Workers boiled seawater in wood-fired kettles to make salt for the Confederate war effort at Cane Patch (now Singleton Swash) and Withers Swash.
Union Marines from USS Ethan Allen destroyed the Cane Patch works on April 23, 1864, and the Withers Swash works the next day.
Now
Built over
The Cane Patch site is now the Dunes Golf and Country Club, and Withers Swash flows through Family Kingdom Amusement Park.
Lines owned by smaller railroads run through Myrtle Beach today.
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