There is an excellent book that I am sure you have seen: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
The Turks and Caisos Islands, a Britsh crown colony was , I believe, the largest producer of salt in the world during the late 19th century. The salt works there, on Salt Cay, are still intact and are now a World Heritage Site. The National Museum of Turks and Caicos measured one of the extant wooden wildmills used to pump brine and built a small scale model.
This is the web site for the National Musuem. http://www.tcmuseum.org/
Neal Hitch
Facilities Management
Ohio Historical Society
Our Musuems: "I know of a lot of people who went in stupid and came out smart." Steven, Unioto Elementary School
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Baxter
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: Evaporative salt works
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> There has been quite a bit of work on the evaporative slat works around San
> Francisco Bay. Aside from the Sandoval volume noted previously it is mostly
> grey literature:
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> Ananian, Benjamin
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> 1985 An Archaeological Reconnaissance of 1200 Acres Associated with the
> Proposed Shorelands Project, Hayward, Alameda County, California. Prepared
> for Cole/Mills Associates.
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>
>
> Baxter, R. Scott
>
> 2006 Historic Study Report for the Baumberg Biological Mitigation Tract,
> Alameda County. Report prepared for the California Department of
> Transportation by Past Forward, Inc.
>
> 2006 Historic Property Survey Report for the Maumberg Mitigation Tract,
> Alameda County. Report prepared for the California Department of
> Transportation by Past Forward, Inc.
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>
>
> Baxter, R. Scott and Rebecca Allen
>
> 2000 Historic Study Report for the Baumberg Biological Mitigation Tract,
> Alameda County. Report prepared for Santa Clara Valley Highway Association
> by Past Forward, Inc.
>
> 2001 Evaluation Report of Historic Archaeological Resources for the
> Baumberg Biological Mitigation Tract, Alameda County. Report prepared for
> Santa Clara Valley Highway Association by Past Forward, Inc.
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>
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> Dobkin, Marjorie and Robert Bruce Anderson.
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> 1994 Oliver Bros. Salt Co., Alameda County, California. Historic
> Resource Evaluation Report prepared for Mara Melandry, Environmental
> Planning Branch, South District 4-Oakland, California Department of
> Transportation. Manuscript on file at Northwest Information Center, Sonoma
> State University.
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>
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> Hope, Andrew, Mark Hylkema, and Thad Van Bueren
>
> 1996 Archaeological Survey and Historical Resource Evaluation Report for
> the Baumberg Biological Mitigation Tract, Alameda County. On file at the
> Northwest Information Center, Sonoma State University.
>
>
> I have electronic versions of the reports we drafted and a paper I presented
> at the SIA meeting a few years back if you would like them. If you look at
> the Cargill Salt webpage they have some photos of some of the old equipment
> used around the Bay, including some unique windmills that used Archimedes
> screws. There is also some massive solar salt works at Guerrero Negro in
> Baja California that I think are fairly historic.
>
> Scott Baxter
> Past Forward, Inc.
>
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> From: "Hatchett, Jennifer C" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 9:48 AM
> Subject: Evaporative salt works
>
>
> I am new to the HISTARCH list, but I am hoping someone out there can help me
> out. My master's thesis is on a mid-nineteenth century evaporative salt
> works on the Texas coast (near Rockport). I am looking for reports on other
> evaporative salt works from the same time period. Also, if anyone has heard
> of a "Johnny Armstrong arm" windmill, it would answer a question for me.
> The windmill name may be a local thing, since I have not been able to find >
> anyone who has heard of such a device. It was apparently used in the
> operation of the salt works, although in what capacity I do not know. Any
> responses will be most appreciated.
> Jenni Hatchett
> Texas Tech University
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