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 industry really started to grow in the early 1800s. The ruffner family, the dickinsons, really started to grow this industry. It was an industry that grew on the backs of slaves.
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 the property alone. By the 1840s we were the largest salt ma
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 well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the citys history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. Then in about an hour, we will tour West Virginias capital building. Later, we hear the true life story of the movie Hidden Figures. In an africanamerican woman played in putting a man on the moon. We begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. Welcome to the West Virginia state museum at the state Cultural Center in c
With support from Cable Partners this weekend, we traveled to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour we speak with local authors about the citys history starting with the link to booker t. Washington. In 20 minutes the Chemical Spill that contaminated charlestons water system and in 50 minutes the teacher strike. We begin with booker t. Washington. Booker t. Washington, the spokesman and leader of africanamericans in america, at the time, had horrible jim crow race codes in the south. That didnt happen in West Virginia. What he observed in his boyhood heroes was the building of a black middle class that became his path, his career path from teske to being a National Celebrity. Booker was born south of corona, virginia, 225 miles from here. And those nine years he was a slave boy, he didnt have pants, he wore a slave boy shirt, shoes, across the top, he wanted very much to go to school and he wasnt able to do that. He left the farm in 1865 after the civil war end, there w