Podcasts Arts Food A Taste of the Past Episode 331: Salt-Works: Reviving a Centuries Old Tradition in the Appalachian Mountains

Episode 331: Salt-Works: Reviving a Centuries Old Tradition in the Appalachian Mountains

Published: June 13, 2019, 4 p.m.

b'William Dickinson first drilled for brine in 1817, in western Virginia, using a hollowed-out tree trunk for piping, The town soon became the "salt capial of the east."'