The BALTIMORE CONNECTION for this November 25, 1956 Baltimore Sun article about the Confederate salt works around St. Andrews Bay is that many of the furnaces were made of BALTIMORE BRICK which had been imported into Pensacola and Apalachicola before the war. 2018 marks the 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF BRICK MAKING on the Gulf Coast. This United States Congress initiated this industry when it appropriated money to build forts to protect the entrance of Mobile Bay. There's a great deal to be learned from an analysis of the bricks from St. Andrew's Bay's Confederate salt works.