Grand Saline

 

It’s a beautiful day for a drive. Well except that section where its raining. Luckily that was south west of me and It basically stayed that way. 

What else would you find in this town but salt….lots of salt. The lovely lady had tons of information about everything salt. Guess what the free gift was when I left, you guessed it a salt and pepper shaker. So lets break down salt in Grand Saline.

* the building this tiny museum is located is made of salt. The brochure has someone licking the building salt rocks. 

* salt prairie just southeast of town has salt water rising to surface and drying while the salt crystallizes

* Caddo Indians as early as 800 AD and Cherokee Indians until 1839 used the area source of salt.

* The main salt bed runs across east Texas and western Louisiana is about 4 miles beneath the surface.

* The town sits on top of a massive load of natural salt and goes down about 16,000 feet deep.

* Confederates used the salt works during the civil war era

* The salt dome is estimated to last for another 20,000 years

* The guide said that this mine by itself could supply the world all by its self.

* New salt marbled with potassium as been found in the dome.

* Morton Salt owns the mine (and there is no physical tour but a video is running at the museum)

* address: 100 W. Garland Street. It’s right on the corner.

See you at the next bend in the road,

Kelli