North Carolina State Salt Works
Salt works, Wilmington (Myrtle Grove Sound), North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Wilmington (Myrtle Grove Sound), North Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1864
- Today
- Marker only
NORTH CAROLINA STATE SALT WORKS
The state boiled seawater in kettles here on a 220-acre tract. In November 1862 it ran 200 kettles making 1,200 bushels of salt a day. Federal forces attacked the works on April 21, 1864, and destroyed about a third of the site.
STATE SALT WORKS
The state of North Carolina to relieve a wartime scarcity, operated salt works from here to Myrtle Grove Sound, 1861-64.
Then
The state boiled seawater in kettles on a 220-acre tract. In November 1862 it ran 200 kettles making 1,200 bushels of salt a day, and peak capacity reached 8,500 bushels a day.
Federal forces attacked the works on April 21, 1864, and destroyed about a third of the site. General W. H. C. Whiting later suspended state salt making in the Cape Fear region.
Now
Marker only
A state highway marker (D-23) stands on College Road.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 3 miles away.
Nearby
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