Tag: Kanawha River
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5 September 1829 – Eleventh Entry
As the journey continues, Archer Alexander is with William Campbell, who shares today’s daily entry in his journal of 1829…
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27 -29 August 1829 -Eighth, Ninth and Tenth entries
“We this day passed through the rich narrow bottoms of Kanawha, a great part of which is covered with a heavy crop of corn. Ten miles of the valley are called “the Licks” from their being covered with salt works. There are sixty furnaces which manufacture 2,000,000 bushels of salt annually” through the labor of…
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