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<< Text Pages >> Great Salt Spring - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 16 January 2010  Page Views: 5670

Multi-periodSite Name: Great Salt Spring Alternative Name: Negro Spring Salt Well
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 2.684 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Evansville, IN  Nearest Village: Equality, IL
Latitude: 37.704685N  Longitude: 88.293282W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Mine or other Industry in Gallatin County, Illinois.
These salt springs along the Salinas River were one of the first locations in North America identified from archaeological finds as a pre-contact salt mine. Finds (ceramic salt pans, hearths) indicate salt production from the Mississippian period and into the historic era.

The springs are not associated with village sites and appear to have been used only for the manufacture of salt. This may indicate that no single group of people ever held an exclusive hold over the manufacture of salt at these locations.
In 1803 the Kaskaskias ceded their right to the Great Salt Spring, and other historic Indian groups, the Kickapoos and the Pottawatomie. There after the federal government leased the land for salt manufacture.
Today the springs are on State land and may be visited by the public, although there is little evidence of any ancient activity.
References:
Jon Muller, "The Great Salt Spring", Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, 1996.
C. C. Royce, Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana, First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881.
Richard W. Yerkes, "Licks, Pans, and Chiefs: A Comment on 'Mississippian Specialization and Salt'" © 1986 Society for American Archaeology.
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Re: Great Salt Spring by Anonymous on Saturday, 23 April 2016
Wondering why the alternative name is "Negro Spring Salt Well".
Guessing that at some time, "Negros" were allowed to use specific places, such as a well. Separated from other peoples.
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    Re: Great Salt Spring by Runemage on Saturday, 23 April 2016
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    No idea, but 'negro' is Spanish for black, could there be some connotation with the word black in a non-racist way with the spring?
    A town on the NW English coast is called Blackpool, literally after a pool of black water, several other ancient names reference the same black name with regard to the spring or water's appearance.



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    Re: Great Salt Spring by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 April 2016
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    No, unfortunately, the Illinois Saline was worked in the historic period as coal fired salt works. The primary workers were enslaved Africans. This may have happened as early as the 1730s with the French bringing slaves to the area to work the salt. Later, as a territory of the United States the practice continued. When Illinois became a state the 1818 constitution specified that no slavery was permitted - with the exception of the Saline works. This was not changed until an 1824 vote removed this clause from the state constitution.
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