Tampa Bay salt works
Salt works, Tampa, Florida.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Tampa, Florida
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Park
TAMPA BAY SALT WORKS
Southernmost point of Gulf coast salt making, a cottage industry worked by as many as 2,500 civilians. In the fall of 1864 Joseph Robles, tending a salt boiler on Frazier's Beach, captured eight sailors from a Union landing party.
Then
Tampa was the southernmost point of Gulf coast salt making, a cottage industry worked by as many as 2,500 civilians.
In the fall of 1864 Joseph Robles, tending a salt boiler on Frazier's Beach, captured eight sailors from a Union landing party.
Now
Park
A replica salt boiler and marker stand in Cypress Point Park.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 4 miles from the center of Tampa.