Kanawha saltworks

The Kanawha saltworks were an important 19th-century mineral resource of the United States. Originally known as Buffalo Salt Lick, in the early 19th century salt producers began creating brine wells, in the vicinity of the Great Kanawha River in what is now West Virginia, and building kettles and furnaces for boiling the brine down into salable crystal salt. The Kanawha is a tributary of the Ohio River and the watershed lies within what are now Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam, and Mason counties. The salt works, also known as the Kanawha Salines, ran for 10 mi (16 km) along the river.