Saltworks of Acute-Dead are mentioned regularly since the creation of the city at the 13th century when they belong to the monks of Psalmodi and Saint-Gilles, then partly at the town of Acute-Dead and the king. Around 1775, royal concession with the Co of Saline of Peccais which will become after fusions the current Company of Saline of the South. Beginning of modernization in 1847 with the 1st elevatory machines with vapor of Gaujouze (6, 5 km in the south-south-east), of saline of Abbot (2 km east of the preceding one) and of the Vigilant one.
