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Malden Kanawha salines village
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: salt-furnace scrap.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Center of the Kanawha salt industry that shipped salt to Cincinnati pork packers from the early 1800s; furnace and village refuse lines the river terrace.
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