The Wapoo Factory | History of SC Slide Collection
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The Wapoo Factory, on the Ashley River, employed 430 men and processed 60,000 tons of fertilizer a year in the 1880s. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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"A Visit to the Phosphate Fields and Hills," showing the structure of the phosphate washing machinery that cleaned the rock before it was crushed to make the fertilizer. "Leslie's Illustrated Magazine...