Onondaga salt works
Salt works, Syracuse, New York.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Syracuse, New York
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Museum
ONONDAGA SALT WORKS
Workers pumped brine from the springs around Onondaga Lake and boiled and sun-dried it. In 1862 alone the Onondaga works made nine million bushels of salt for preserving food and curing leather.
Then
Workers pumped brine from the springs around Onondaga Lake and boiled and sun-dried it. In 1862 alone the Onondaga works made nine million bushels of salt for preserving food and curing leather.
Now
Museum
The Salt Museum, in a 1930s building on the Onondaga Lake shore in Liverpool, explains the industry.
Lines owned by smaller railroads and CSX run through Syracuse today.