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sending approximately thirty-five hundred barrels of salt to New
Orleans each year. As well as producing salt, La Saline’s location along the Mississippi River meant that it served as a lead-shipping point. Lead from Mine la Motte, opened in the 1720s, came by animal or cart over ridge roads and then down the Saline River Valley to its mouth at La Saline to be loaded on Mississippi River boats.
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mouth of the creek, and the Petite Saline, located at the upper end of the creek, along a tributary. The purpose of the settlement was the manufacturing of salt which was used for meat preservation, skin tanning, and fur processing. Water from the salt springs was boiled in ovens the French built; when the water boiled away, the salt remained.
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Anabaptist (two households). In 1804 La Saline was reported to have had 59 inhabitants. The population was always small, with a temporary and diverse population comprising more single men than families.
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La Saline was an unplanned French village, which simply grew up amorphously without any spatial coordination. Typical of such villages were a small number of cabins scattered along a creek and road with corn plots surrounding gardens. There were no surveyed boundaries to separate tracts of land. As
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The settlement of the Saline River began in the early 1700s. In 1715, a small party of French were reported to be making salt at La Saline. The early encampment at La Saline was temporary, but over time became permanent. Two settlements grew up along the Saline: the Grande Saline, located near the
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authorities also set up a post at La Saline in 1788. By 1800, French and
Americans (Kentuckians) extracting salt from the Saline had set up four or five furnaces used for boiling off the salt for extraction, earning La Saline the name 'La Saline Ensanglantèe' (The Bloody Saline). These men were
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