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The Ruggles and Rademaker Salt Plant

Ruggles and Rademaker Salt Plant employees pack salt in barrels. (Courtesy Photo/Manistee County Historical Museum)

By MARK FEDDER Manistee County Historical Museum Visitors to the museum often ask questions regarding Manistee’s production of salt: how it began, how it was produced and the names of the factories that produced it. Throughout Manistee’s roughly 130 year history of producing salt, one of the major factories that helped designate the town as [...]

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