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On Cape Cod, they might have called it “the ditch that killed the salt works.” As workers dug the ditch, several large salt making companies imported carpenters from Cape Cod to build up the …

Aug 29, 2019 · Opening doors to the public allows Shibles to share the rich history of salt harvesting on Cape Cod. Large black and white photos accompany the story of a time when …

Salt was vital to the Cape's large fishing fleet and maritime trade. Most Cape salt was obtained by importation and boiling of seawater using prodigious amounts of scarce wood.

From 1816 to 1820, Cape Cod went into a frenzy building salt works. At the peak of the salt business in 1831, 881 salt works lined the north and south shores producing half a million …

During the revolutionary war, prices skyrocketed when Congress levied tariffs on imported salt. Then, when the British Navy destroyed local fishing vessels, Cape Cod’s mariners needed …

Dennis is credited as the site of the first salt works established there by John Sears about 1776. By 1800 there were salt works in most Cape Cod towns, but Chatham, with its many bays and …

Since 1830, Cape Cod Saltworks has been harvesting sea salt from Nantucket Sound using natural solar evaporation. The traditional method of drying saltwater in greenhouses, still used …

Sep 11, 2014 · It shows just how common salt works were on Cape Cod. It is also interesting to compare this to the present day shoreline and to see what these locations are like now.

Cape Cod Saltworks uses natural solar evaporation to create the freshest sea salt collected from the Nantucket Sound. A Cape Cod tradition since the early 1800s this sea salt is coveted for …