<< Text Pages >> Great Salt Spring - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Multi-periodSite Name: Great Salt Spring Alternative Name: Negro Spring Salt WellCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 34.849 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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