St. Andrew Bay salt works
Salt works, St. Andrew Bay, Florida.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- St. Andrew Bay, Florida
- Years
- 1861-1865
ST. ANDREW BAY SALT WORKS
Florida salt plants, mostly between St. Andrew Bay and St. Marks, boiled seawater around the clock with a workforce estimated at 5,000. The bay held a large number of the works. Union raiders, including the captured steamboat USS Bloomer, destroyed numerous salt works here.
Then
Florida salt plants, mostly between St. Andrew Bay and St. Marks, boiled seawater around the clock with a workforce estimated at 5,000. St. Andrew Bay held a large number of these works.
Union raiders, including the captured steamboat USS Bloomer, destroyed numerous salt works on the bay.
Now
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 1.9 miles from the center of St. Andrew Bay.
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