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Salt in the Conemaugh Valley : the importance of the Conemaugh salt works in the early American salt industry (1800-1860)

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Main Author: Dzombak, William C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Saltspurg [i.e. Saltsburg], Pa. : Saltsburg Historical Soc., 2004.
Subjects and Genres:
Salt > History > Pennsylvania > Conemaugh Valley.
Salt > Geology > Pennsylvania > Allegheny Mountains.
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260 |a Saltspurg [i.e. Saltsburg], Pa. :  |b Saltsburg Historical Soc.,  |c 2004. 
300 |a [867] p. in various pagings :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 29 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. B1-B9) and index. 
505 0 |a The need for salt on the frontier -- Discovery of salt on the Conemaugh -- Expansion of the Conemaugh salt industry -- Eye-witness descriptions of the salt works -- Salt production (surveys of manufacturers) -- Floods damage salt works -- Transportation of salt from works to market -- Geology of the salt resource -- Demise of the Conemaugh salt industry -- A1: Salt works on the Atlantic seashore -- A2: New York salt works -- A3: Kanawha salt works -- A4: Alum salt -- A5: Liverpool salt -- A6: The tariff on salt -- A7: Virginia salt works -- A8: Kentucky salt -- A9: Ohio salt works -- A10: United States saline at Shawneetown, Illinois -- A11: Early European salt works -- A12: Technicalities of salt making -- A13: Spring-pole experiments -- A14: Navigable Streams Act -- A15: Diurnal ebb and flow of ground water. 
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