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Well in right background. Foreground is storage tank for brine, the salt water cistern.  Brine from all wells is piped into this cistern which serves merely as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs were place ca. 1870.

1. Brine Storage Tank

A salt water reserve tank.

2. Brine Storage Tank

An aerial view of the factory with the salt water reserve tank in the foreground and other various buildings surrounding it.

3. Salt Well and Brine Storage Tank

Brine Storage Tanks. The brine went from wells to storage tanks, the container in center of picture contains brine. The boiler furnishes heat, a pre-heating process for brine grainer. The brine came in from the left. Coal in foreground.

4. Brine Storage Tanks

Aerial view of the salt works with salt water reserve tank in the foreground and surrounding buildings.

5. Dickinson Salt Works

A brine storage reservoir with a building on the rightside.

6. Kanawha Valley Salt Works

Picture of salt water cistern at Dickinson Salt Works. Brine from all wells is piped to this cistern, which serves as a reserve supply should the wells be shut off for a short time.  The bottom logs in foundation of this cistern were put in about 1870.

7. Salt Water Cistern at Dickinson Salt Works