ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY

By Dorris Keeven-Franke

Category: 1829

  • 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.…

  • August 26th

    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.