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Old Salt Works

CITY:

Equality

COUNTY:

Gallatin

DEDICATED BY:

State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1935 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located one mile west of Equality on the south side of Route 142.

One mile south was located one of the oldest salt works west of the Alleghenies. Here Indians and French made salt, while at a later day Americans established a commercial salt industry which finally attained a production of 500 bushels a day.

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