Saltbridge Hollow is a small mining town on the east coast in North Carolina, USA. It is, as you probably know, most famous for it’s Garrison Salt. It was founded in the 1800s when James Garrison found a set of caves that contained evaporite rocks. He established the first salt mine in the united States. After moving his entire family there, including aunts and uncles and cousins, the little town grew around them. Salt, while profitable, wasn’t the great employer that James had hoped. Hence, Saltbridge Hollow has remained quite small.

It’s a picturesque, old wooden houses in Scandinavian style, mixed with brick buildings from the 60s. It has a supermarket, some resturants and one main school, the Leslie Garrison Boarding School. When the school was opened by James Garrison himself, the hope was to create a boarding school for children in the need of fresh air. Children who hopefully would grow up and stay in Saltbridge Hollow. It only remained so for the first 50 years, after that the locals started taking over. Even though the school still has some children on board today, it’s now mainly a regular school even though the name has stuck.

The town has a doctor’s office, but if you want a dentist you have to go to St Eveline, which isn’t that far by bus or car. Saltbridge Hollow also has some stores for clothing and toys, but if you want a shopping experience, you need to go to the mall in St Eveline also.

What Saltbridge Hollow has is beautiful nature, and loads of it. Tourists haven’t discovered it yet which means your trip will be relatively undisturbed. Forests, beaches, beach promenade and quaint streets with cobble stones.

Welcome to Saltbridge Hollow, we are ready for you!

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Saltbridge Hollow is a fictional town set in the USA, it’s where my next novel “Another Charlotte” takes place. Another Charlotte by Kathy L Salt will be out on the 23rd of January.