Museum-Mid-App.org
Title
Museum of the Middle Appalachians, Saltville, VA -- located in Southwest Virginia
Description
The Saltville Valley can date its human occupation back 14,000 years. Prehistoric creatures visited the valley, attracted by the extensive salt deposits.
Two of Patrick Henry's sisters moved into the Saltville Valley in the 1780's and began the commercial production of salt. This production continued unabated for the next 200 years.
Saltville is located eight miles north of I-81 in the southwestern part of Virginia. Take exit 35 via Route 107 or Exit 29 via Route 91 for the short and scenic drive into Saltville. Click here to see a map.
Languages
English
Additional Information
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Categories:
- Amphibians
- Animal Prehistoric
- Animals
- Appalachian
- Art Prehistoric
- Biodiversity
- Birds
- Botany
- Bugs
- Civil War
- Dinosaur Prehistoric
- Dinosaurs
- Ecology
- Environment
- Evolution
- Fish
- Fossils
- Free
- Frozen Mammoth Woolly
- Geology
- Human Prehistoric
- Ice Age Excavation Site
- Insects
- Kids
- Life Prehistoric
- Mammal Prehistoric
- Mammoth Picture Woolly
- Mammoth Woolly
- Man Prehistoric
- Mastodon
- Minerals
- Museum
- Native American Artifacts
- Natural History
- Nature
- Palaeontology
- Paleo Archeological Excavations
- People Prehistoric
- Plants
- Pleistocene Epoch
- Prehistoric
- Prehistoric Dig
- Prehistoric Site
- Prehistoric Times
- Prehistoric Tool
- Prehistoric Woman
- Reptiles
- Salt
- Saltville
- Saltworks
- Smith County
- Southwest Virginia
- United States
- Virginia
- War Between The States
- Woolly Mammoth
- Zoology
- Localities
- North America
- Paleo-archeological Excavations
- Regional