ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke
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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.…
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Two miles below the bridge we passed the great falls of Kenewha*, a great natural curiousity, an admirable site for water works. A great quantity of timber is sawed here and several hundred large flat boats are built here for the purpose of taking salt down the Ohio.
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William Campbell is a young 23 year-old-single man who has set out from Virginia to Missouri. All along these, numerous houses have been built for the purpose fo keeping entertainment. Many of them good houses.
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