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The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets Suzanne M. Retzinger What happens when rural America-longIn the early nineteenth century, a ten mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt producing area in the antebellum United States. Production of this basic commodity stimulated settlement, the livestock industry, and the rise of agricultural processing, especially pork packing, in the American West. Salt extraction was then and is now a fundamental industry. In his illuminating study, now available with a new