La Saline, Missouri

La Saline is an abandoned village located in Beauvais Township in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, United States.

The purpose of the settlement was the manufacturing of salt which was used for meat preservation, skin tanning, and fur processing.

[8] As well as producing salt, La Saline’s location along the Mississippi River meant that it served as a lead-shipping point.

As a village without any economic base and with efforts to make it a district post having failed, La Saline depopulated.

[10] The earliest inhabitants of La Saline were French colonialists who worked to produce salt.

[11] La Saline was an unplanned French village, which simply grew up amorphously without any spatial coordination.

Typical of such villages were a small number of cabins scattered along a creek and road with corn plots surrounding gardens.