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All through history, availability of salt has been pivotal to civilization. In Britain, the suffix "-wich" in a place name sometimes means it was once a source of salt, as in Northwich and Droitwich, although other "-wich" towns are so named from the Saxon 'wic', meaning fortified dwelling or emporium. [4]
Heads of families could purchase a half-bushel of salt for $2.50. If a widow had a son in the Confederate army, the price was only $1.00. But if the widow's husband had served his nation, the price was free. Local court clerks sent salt requests to the state government, which in turn allotted salt to the counties as requested. [4]
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Strataca is a salt mine museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States.It was previously known as the Kansas Underground Salt Museum.The museum is built within one of the world's largest deposits of rock salt, formed 275 million years ago, and provides the opportunity to go 650 feet (200 m) beneath the Earth’s surface.
On one side of this monument is a map and short summary of the massacre, while the opposite side contains a list of the victims. [146] In 2005, a replica of the U.S. Army's original 1859 cairn was built in the community of Carrollton, Arkansas , [ 147 ] the former county seat of Carroll County, Arkansas .
[1] [2] Thomas Mays, in his book The Saltville Massacre (1995), argued that 46 U.S. Army soldiers were killed. [3] [6] An analysis of the National Archives records by Bryce Suderow, Phyllis Brown, and David Brown concluded that 45–50 members of the 5th and 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry (USCC) were murdered by Confederates. [4]
The ancient Chinese gradually mastered and advanced the techniques of producing salt. Salt mining was an arduous task for them, as they faced geographical and technological constraints. Salt was extracted mainly from the sea, and salt works in the coastal areas in late imperial China equated to more than 80 percent of national production. [5]
In 1641, Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in North America by the Massachusetts General Court for a new process for making salt. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also