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S16.04.167Description
Salt seep at the base of Boone Rock, a cliff of Sharon sandstone/gonglomerate adjacent to the Jackson municipal sewage-treatment plant in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. A meander of the Little Salt Creek formerly flowed at the base of the cliff but was abandoned when the stream was channelized. American Indians, and later settlers, made salt at this site by digging shallow pits into the sandstone exposed in the creek bed, then boiling the brine that seeped into these pits. The image was taken by Michael C. Hansen in June 1991.
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For Information about Michael C. Hansen's research on Scioto Saline, see Accession #2016_007, Box 1157 and Accession # 2016_008, Box 1160 in the Ohio Geological Survey Archives Collection.
For more information about the history of the Jackson's salt industry, see: "The Scioto Saline" by Michael C. Hansen (Ohio Geological Survey, Ohio Geology Newsletter, Winter 1995) page 1+. And James L. Murphy and James F. Morton, "Above the Salt: Test Excavations at the Scioto Saline, Jackson County, Ohio," Ohio Archaeologist 54, no. 2 (spring 2004): 38-42 available on the OSU Knowledge Bank at <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1811/38950" rel="noreferrer nofollow">hdl.handle.net/1811/38950</a>.
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Side view of a sandstone cliff base. Boone Rock in Jackson, Ohio.