Qigu Saltworks Dingshan Production Area (七股鹽場頂山生產區)

The No. 2 Pump House can be found next to the newly-built Western Coastal Expressway. Qigu Saltworks (七股鹽場) was the largest salt field in Taiwan and the last to shut down in 2002. Dingshan Village (頂山里) was the site of the 1st Production Area (第一生產區) of the saltworks, largely on land expropriated from the local population, who had previously prospered as fish farmers. Numerous relics of the…