<span>Salt manufacture has a long history, dating to well over 2700 BCE in China as the earliest documentation. Oklahoma's first commercial salt manufacturing occurred in the Cherokee land Indian Territory in 1815 by Major William Lovely, a Cherokee agent.</span>
Native Americans made salt at Kanawha, West Virginia before 1755 by boiling brine from salt springs. Large-scale salt production from brine springs was underway by 1800, and the process of drilling for more concentrated brine began within a few years.
