ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke

  • August 29th

    We waited patiently for the arrival of our wagons… this is Virginia still, not yet West Virginia…

  • August 28th

    …all the feeling of a stranger in a strange place… Charleston, West Virginia…

  • August 27th

    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.…