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Across america. Here is a recent program. Altworks dickinsons sa is the revival of a family business. My sister started evaporating and crystallizing salt with 50 manufacturers in the region which made this Little Valley in West Virginia the largest producer. We are on top of a trapped ancient sea, a 600 millionyearold source. This has been dissolved by a freshwater aquifer which means it runs under us like a salty river. This was pushing up in springs and places, which is how it was discovered, mainly by large animals. Deer and elk and buffalo were here. Native americans came for hunting and gathering salt for themselves, and as european settlers moved west across Allegheny Mountains they found this valuable source of salt, which we take for granted today, how important salt was before refrigeration. The salt industr ....
Largest salt producing region in the country. We are on top of a trapped ancient sea, a 600 millionyearold source. This has been dissolved by a freshwater aquifer which means it runs under us like a salty river. This was pushing up in springs and places, which is how it was discovered, mainly by large animals. Deer and elk and buffalo were here. Native americans came for hunting and gathering salt for themselves, and as european settlers moved west across Allegheny Mountains they found this valuable source of salt, which we take for granted today, how important salt was before refrigeration. The salt industry really started to grow in the early 1800s. The ruffner family, the dickinsons, really started to grow this industry. And it was an industry that grew on the backs of slaves. Valley was one of the largest industrial slave uses in the country, like many other industries. There were over slaves in the 5000 valley and 250 on ....
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as wel ....
Government. Next, a book tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits charleston, West Virginia, to learn more about its literary history. For years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Booker t. Washington for 20 years was the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america. At the time, we had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen here in West Virginia. It was a different sort of race relation. What he observed with his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middleclass, and that became his path, his career path, as he went from tuskegee to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born in a place called hill sport. It is about 225 miles from here. In those first nine years, he was a slave boy. He did no ....
Nonnative americans. Stretching about 110 miles long and 70 miles wide, the black hills of south dakota rise up from the plains, just to the west of rapid city. The black hills are very important to the native American Community members. They are referred to as the heart. And thein pine trees elevations that we have that surround that area thinking of where rapid city is at, we are positioned at the gateway to the black hills, where it is kind of how we have always build ourselves, billed back to the earliest founders of rapid city. I am doniphan donovan sprague, i come from the lakota ise family and my tribal affiliation, from ,cion river sioux reservation , a veryacred bear butte spiritual place where not only lakota, but people of Many AmericanIndian Tribes and nationalities visited. Aroundhe time period of 1800, w ....