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Palestine Salt Works C. S. A.

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courthouse grounds, corner of E. Market and US 287, Palestine, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 31° 45' 51.9984", -95° 37' 33.1968"
 
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    Located 6.5 miles southwest. During the Civil War this salt works was assigned to produce salt for the Confederacy at a fixed price of eight dollars for a hundred-pound sack. Private customers from East Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana often paid twenty dollars for a sack. Producing salt was slow, tedious work. Salt water was taken from wells spread over a distance of three-fourths of a mile. A pump operated by a slave was placed in each well. Gum logs, hollowed out and joined together formed a pipeline from the wells to large cast iron boiling kettles which were kept fired. Heated water was then transferred to smaller kettles for quick evaporation. (see other side) (Back Palestine Salt Works)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

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