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An old method of extracting salt. Salt was lifted out of water and placed on the boards 'walkways' to drain. It was then removed in wheelbarrows for storage.

1. Salt Extracting Plant

Close up of a Bromine Still.  The salt has been removed and Bromine is now being extracted.

2. Bromine Still

Pipes running along side the exterior of a wall.

3. Pipes To Preheater from Settling Tank

Salt well.  Two men are standing in the distance next to a telephone pole.

4. Salt Wells

Picture of 17 genuine Kanawha Salt Bags from J.Q. Dickinson and Co., Malden, W. Va.  Also bags of Charmco Feeds Screened Cracked Corn from the Charleston Milling Company, Charleston, W. Va.

5. Genuine Kanawha Salt Bags

A salt well derrick in the midst of winter.

6. One of the First Salt Wells Drilled for J.Q. Dickinson & Company

Salt well and salt dryer (in background) in the wintertime.

7. Salt Well and Salt Dryer (In Background)

Well in right background. Foreground is storage tank for brine, the salt water cistern.  Brine from all wells is piped into this cistern which serves merely as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs were place ca. 1870.

8. Brine Storage Tank

Steam engine that was used for working on the salt wells.

9. Steam Engine for Working on Salt Well

Salt on the assembly line.

10. Interior of a Salt Factory

Interior of a grainer building.

11. Interior of Grainer

A salt water reserve tank.

12. Brine Storage Tank

These pictures made before 1898 'probably at same time as Thompson made picture of entire plant'--also shown in this collection. Picture in upper left corner shows salt piled on drain boards after being lifted by hand from the crystalizing vats. Right upper picture shows salt being packed in barrels for shipment. Middle scene is in cooper shop. 'All salt at that time was shipped in barrels.' Lower left scene shows barrels of salt on platform ready to lower down incline to load on barges. Until the New York Central Railroad 'formerly the K&M' was built, all salt was shipped by barge or taken across Kanawha River and loaded on C&O Railroad at South Malden.

13. Collage Images of the Salt Industry

Picture of shed, smokestack is on left, grainer is behind. Coal brought in here. Small Stack on right is storage for cinders.

14. Shed, Smokestack and Grainer in Salt Camp

An aerial view of the factory with the salt water reserve tank in the foreground and other various buildings surrounding it.

15. Salt Well and Brine Storage Tank

Brine Storage Tanks. The brine went from wells to storage tanks, the container in center of picture contains brine. The boiler furnishes heat, a pre-heating process for brine grainer. The brine came in from the left. Coal in foreground.

16. Brine Storage Tanks

Evaporating sheds for salt.

17. Evaporating Sheds

Buildings to the right and left with a silo in the distance.

18. Salt Well Buildings

19. Blacksmith Shop at Dickinson Salt Works.

A towering smokestack to the right with railroad tracks running down the center and in the distance.    A truck sits in the center with its door open.

20. Salt Works

Picture of Coal stoker to furnace for boiler.

21. Coal Stoker to Furnace for Boiler

A roof top of a factory building with silos in the background.

22. Rooftop of Salt Works Building

Salt well with houses and another well in the background.

23. Salt Well

Aerial view of the salt works with salt water reserve tank in the foreground and surrounding buildings.

24. Dickinson Salt Works

25. Farm Boy Balances on Pipes in front of a Salt Well

A brine storage reservoir with a building on the rightside.

26. Kanawha Valley Salt Works

27. Distant View of Salt Works

Picture of salt water cistern at Dickinson Salt Works. Brine from all wells is piped to this cistern, which serves as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs in foundation of this cistern were put in about 1870.

28. Salt Water Cistern at Dickinson Salt Works

A salt well derrick.

29. Salt Well of J.Q. Dickinson & Company

30. Salt pile and Copper Shovel

A salt well derrick.

31. J. Q. Dickinson & Company Salt Well

32. One of the First Salt Wells Drilled for J.Q. Dickinson & Company

A salt well derrick.

33. J. Q. Dickinson & Company Salt Well

A close-up shot of a coil.

34. Coil for Evaporating Bromide.

Dust-Lay advertisement for J.Q. Dickinson and Co. Malden, W. Va.

35. Dickinson's Dust-Lay Service for Dust Proofing Dirt, Cinder, or Gravel Surfaces

Pipes running to condensors in a building.

36. Condensors for Bromine Recovery

37. Rooftop of Salt Works Building

Salt works buildings and salt workers. Cows visible in the foreground.

38. Brook Salt Furnace.

A Salt Rake in use.  After the salt rake was installed, the salt was raked up automatically. (Steam went through under rake heating the brine)

39. Salt Rake

Where calcium chloride is made. The evaportating tank with coil in tank.  The calcium is drained out below and became solid.

40. Calcium Chloride Tank

41. Salt Works Buildings

Barn with a tractor parked beside it as well as a salt dryer building at Dickinson Salt Works.

42. Barn and Salt Dryer at Dickinson Salt Works

Picture of storage building for off grade salt. This salt is used for unfreezing highways since it has more impurities in it.

43. Storage Building for Off Grade Salt

44. Grainer at Salt Works in Kanawha Valley

Salt grainer vats. Salt was lifted out of vats and drained.

45. Salt Grainer Vats

Salt works buildings in the background and a field in front.

46. Salt Dryer and Barn

47. Salt Well and Salt Dryer

A smoke stack on the right billows steam or smoke, with a processing building in the center.

48. Salt Hopper

Factory building, grainer.

49. Salt Grainer

Pipes running into salt jugs.

50. Salt Jugs

51. Field Adjacent to Salt Works

A salt well derrick.

52. Salt Well

A salt mine car tied to a building on the left with a man standing to the right.

53. Salt Mine Car

A building that is believed to be a salt dryer.

54. Salt Dryer

Factory buildings with a smokestack to the right.

55. Evaporating Sheds, Salt Manufacturing in Kanawha Valley

A salt well derrick.

56. Salt Well

Factory alongside a river.

57. Salt Works and Reflection in River

A smokestack in the center surrounded by salt works buildings.

58. Smokestack and Salt Industry Buildings

Salt works evaporating sheds.

59. Evaporating Sheds, Part of Salt Manufacturing in Kanawha Valley