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La Saline colonial salt works village
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Flint and stone tools
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Spanish reales, lead balls, kettle fragments, wrought nails.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1715-1825 French and Spanish colonial salt works
French salt makers worked the Saline Creek springs from about 1715, and by 1800 four or five furnaces were shipping about 3,500 barrels of salt a year to New Orleans while lead from Mine la Motte was loaded here onto river boats. Cheaper Illinois salt ended production by 1825 and the village emptied.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Mississippi River floodplain
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