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Col. Henry Hewitt Wood House

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This house, built between 1829 and 1831 for salt merchant Colonel Henry Hewitt Wood and his wife Ann, is located at the east end of Charleston’s Kanawha City. It sits across the river from Malden, once the center of the salt industry. The home was originally part of a large farm but is now surrounded by other houses. It is privately owned and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.