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Potash Factories Boomed Then Disappeared in Antioch
In 1917 18 Antioch Nebraska near Alliance grew with five potash plants National Nebraska Western American and Alliance Potash Co factories. Carpenter John Hunt recalls 24 foot square homes a two story unused schoolhouse and banks stores and pool halls while workers faced long twelve hour shifts and red dust dyed hair. Pipelines carried potash from lakes forty miles away to plants with booster pumps every ten miles.
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ED Sykes
Antioch
Alliance
Nebraska
John Hunt
Big Springs
Palmer
Hunt
Allaince
Burlington Railroad
Edgemont
S. C
National Potash Co
National
Western
American
Alliance Potash Companies
Western Outlook Magazine
Carpenter Hunt
Omaha
Burlington
Sandhills Lakes