Saltville salt works
Salt works, Saltville, Virginia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Saltville, Virginia
- Years
- 1861-1864
- Today
- Museum
SALTVILLE SALT WORKS
One of the Confederacy's main salt works, boiling brine in cast iron kettles to make salt that preserved meat for soldiers and civilians. Confederates turned back a Union attack on October 2, 1864. Stoneman's forces took Saltville and wrecked the works on December 20, 1864.
Then
Saltville was one of the Confederacy's main salt works, making salt to preserve meat for soldiers and civilians. Brine was boiled down in cast iron kettles.
Confederates turned back a Union attack on October 2, 1864. Stoneman's forces took Saltville and wrecked the works on December 20, 1864.
Now
Museum
The Museum of the Middle Appalachians in downtown Saltville has exhibits on the Civil War.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 5 miles from the center of Saltville.
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