Day: April 26, 2023

West Virginia is well known for its many coal mining towns and coal industry. However, there is another industry that helped put the Mountain State on the map.

The salt industry was the first major industry to be developed in West Virginia. Before the industry began to take hold in the Mountain State, salt was considered a “scarce domestic commodity” and had to be imported to the newly-formed United States, according to the West Virginia Encyclopedia.