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Nearly 30 years prior to Olin acquiring Mathieson Chemical, a muck dam collapsed, sending a 30-foot wall of water, mud, mercury, and alkali down the Holston River valley into the company town of Palmertown, a community of Saltville, Virginia. Bodies, homes, and cars were washed as far as seven miles down the valley.
- 1892; 131 years ago
- Clayton, Missouri, United States
- 6,400 (2017)
- US$8.911 billion (2021)
Aug 6, 1994 · Financed by Virginia Highlands Community College, the Town Council and Olin, the center became Saltville's first sign of hope. It offered basic and vocational classes for 300 former Olin employees.
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Oct 27, 2023 · Information about the Saltville Waste Disposal Ponds Superfund Site. The Saltville Waste Disposal Ponds Superfund site includes approximately 125 acres located in Saltville, Virginia. Olin Corporation and its predecessors operated chemical plants at the site from 1895 to 1972, including a chlorine plant from 1950 to 1972.
Mar 13, 1980 · After long weeks of negotiations, Saltville wrested from Olin 3,708 acres of land, the company's plant, many of the community buildings built by the company, and a cash settlement of $600,000 to ...
The original company associated with Saltville was the Mathieson Alkali Works of Saltville, Virginia (1893), and they produced soda ash from local deposits of salt, coal, and limestone and later in other salt byproducts. In later years the company merged with the Olin Chemical Corporation. Ms.
When Olin began withdrawing from Saltville, it turned the vacant computer building over to the town. In early 1971, with backing from Olin and the town, Virginia Highlands Community College set up a learning center to re-train, educate and counsel the jobless men and their families. Martha Turnage was assigned to oversee the project.
