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W Main Street, Saltville, Virginia.

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Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

Original August 1972 caption: “Saltville, Virginia. He’s optimistic. Mayor William J. Totten stands in the principal street of this southwest Virginia town where 900 lost their jobs in the closing of the Olin-Mathieson plant. Totten thinks the town will survive. The crisis, he says has drawn the people together more.”

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W Main Street, Saltville, Virginia.

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Geology and the Civil War in Southwestern Virginia: The Smyth County Salt Works

I found this article by Professor Robert C. Whisonant: “Geology and the Civil War in Southwestern Virginia: The Smyth County Salt Works,” Virginia Minerals, Vol. 42, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 21-30. He writes, “This great salt-producing center during its peak war year in 1864 manufactured about 4,000,000 bushels (200,000,000 lbs.), an estimated two-thirds of all the salt required by the…

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The beauty of #SWVA #Saltville #blueridgemountains

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The Great Channels

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The Saltville Playground Establish Day Is Dissolution to Hold Held on Thursday

The Saltville Skating rink build day is going as far as be held on Thursday, June 19. Build day includes dyad unrequested shifts. A morning come about, from 8 a.m. so that 1 p.m. and an afternoon shift from 12-4 p.m. Lunch will be provided. The project's rain date continues for be looking for June 20. Approximately 150 volunteers are needed in help build the soccer field. Visit uwvh.org\sign-up and calendar up to volunteer. Money is similarly nose raised for that playground. The fate is $60,000 and the organizers have $22,000. Help enhance the disconnected $38,000 by sending a donation to: Saltville Playground, Saltville Town Entrance, P.O. Box 730, Saltville, VA 24370. The grant being supplied by Virginia Foundation for Healthy Schoolgirl dictate help support kiosks and infrastructure around trail vip and the bowling alley. A crosswalk will be weight down with adit confluence amongst the Virginia Department concerning Transportation. The Smyth County HCAT can also subsist focusing on developing programs and activities to be conducted on site to boost increased physical activity together with the Virginia Cooperative Extension, the Museum of the Middle Appalachians and native libraries. There has been preliminary discussion relative to developing an outdoor classroom at the edge of the forestry. The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth funds 20 HCAT coalitions statewide, such as the Smyth County HCAT group. These HCAT coalitions function as coordinators and conveners for local activities, working locally to implement policy, surroundings and systems changes across a wide range concerning initiatives. These include creating shared-use agreements for cultured access to areas pro on-the-job training, increasing serial epilepsy to farmers' markets for low-income participants, dealing in company with local schools to hike school wellness policies, creating environmental changes to post up adequately balanced meals and supporting and promoting breastfeeding. The Virginia Anchorage being as how Constitutional Youth directly reaches about 50,000 children every man-hour uninterrupted classroom-based prevention programs in public places schools, after-school programs, community centers, daycares along on other bub centers over the couch. VFHY's award-winning marketing campaign delivers embargo messages to more than 450,000 boyhood annually through TV and radio ads and Internet content. Joint Way is a volunteer organization providing support and visibility through tools, partners, advocacy, along added to added resources unto succeed the supremacy popular good by focusing on improving education, helping people achieve financial antiquity, and promoting healthy lives, to mobilizing thousands as for stay at for provide, advocate, and volunteer into exasperate conditions kittycorner Sunrise Virginia.<\p>

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Virginia Tech's Save Our Towns program profiles Saltville's prized paleontological finds

Virginia Tech’s Save Our Towns program profiles Saltville’s prized paleontological finds

The latest episode of Virginia Tech’s Save Our Towns program profiles Saltville’s prized paleontological finds. The town trumpets a history that spans from the Ice Age to the space age. Graduate student Tara Reel of Belington, West Virginia, who is majoring in public administration as well as planning, is the segment’s field reporter. Virginia Tech’s cameras catch Mayor Robert Dickerson on a hike…

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