In the early days of gypsum mining, farmers drove their horses and wagons as far as 100 miles to purchase supplies of "land plaster" for use as fertilizer, or soil "sweetener" as it was called at the time. The primary use of gypsum through this period was as land plaster and fertilizer until about 1880.
gypsum MSU Department of Geography
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