Share & Comment on Your Memories

We all have wonderful memories of the favorite swimming hole in Winn Parish known only as Salt Works. Everyone in Winn Parish came to Salt Works with their families and families and teenagers from Goldonna in Natchitoches Parish, teens from Reidhimer in Bienville Parish, as well as, families and teens from Jonesboro in Jackson Parish came to enjoy the artesian salt well, swinging from the rope and landing in the cold water. For teenagers especially, it was a gathering place to meet other teens.

I remember that if anyone in our family got a cut, my grandmother would have us put the wound in the salt well. She was right too, the water seemed to make the cut heal faster and there was never any infection. I also remember walking on the salt flats in the summer time and finding arrowheads. Remember too when the area experienced any heavy rains and the water would come up to the road and you couldn't go swimming. I remember sitting on the edge of the road watching the water and just willing it to go down, because absolutely nothing was better than swimming and putting a watermelon in the water to get cold and eating it on the grassy banks.

Share your memories and bring back memories for others. You will have fun all over again and remember things you may have forgotten when you read what other people have written. Let the new generations in on the fun and the wealth of historical history and how it supplied salt to the conferacy during the Civil War. Salt Works was always about family and I remember many times watching Uncle SoTo sit under the pine tree watching the swimmers and making sure that no one got hurt when I was a teenager. I urge you to click on the comment button at the end of this post and write about and share your memories. Make someone else's day as well as your own! If you would like to view the Drake Salt works site, go to www.drakesaltworks.com .