Salt industry and trade
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document
Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.
Donnally and Steele Kanawha Salt Works Records
A daybook of the Donnally and Steele Kanawha Salt Works, listing goods bought and sold and customers' names.
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Felix G. Hansford Papers
Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company Records
Daybooks and ledgers of a company store operated by the Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company, an early producer of coal and salt in the Mason County, West Virginia, area.
J.N. Curry (b.1863) Papers
John F. Smith, Author, Paper regarding Salt Making Industry in Kentucky
Typed document titled "The Salt Making Industry of Clay County, Kentucky." This paper was presented by John F. Smith to the Filson Club, a precursor of the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, KY, on 1927 April 4.
J.Q. Dickinson and Company, Papers and Photographs
Miscellaneous papers concerning the history of the Kanawha Valley salt industry, including correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs which pertain to the Dickinson Salt Works and Malden, West Virginia. There are a list of salt works on the Kanawha River, clippings on the destruction of the Dickinson Salt Works by fire, and a historical sketch of the Kanawha Valley salt industry.
Kanawha County Archives
Court case papers, 1779-1933, and county record books, 1806-1927. The bound volumes include private account and minute books of the Coal River and Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company (1852-1858) the Winifrede Mining and Manufacturing Company, (1850-1858), the steamboat CROCKETT (1836); a sawmill (1879); and general merchandise and salt accounts, 1822-1823, 1864-1865. A name and subject index to the case papers and a checklist of the bound volumes are available.
Kanawha County Court Records
Transcripts and records of the 1845 Kanawha County court case of Reynolds V. McFarland, Shrewsbury, et. Al. known as the "Salt Case."