ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
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We waited patiently for the arrival of our wagons… this is Virginia still, not yet West Virginia…
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…all the feeling of a stranger in a strange place… Charleston, West Virginia…
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Ten miles of the valley are called “the Licks” from their being covered with salt works. There are sixty furnaces which manufacture 2,000,000 bushels of salt annually.* The manufacturing of salt would be much more extensive if it were not entirely monopolized by a company. It will someday be a place of much more importance.…