East Liverpool

by Cathy Hester Seckman

Book Overview

Once known as the "Pottery Capital of the World," East Liverpool boasted some 300 potteries in its heyday, along with many ancillary industries. When British immigrant Thomas Bennett found promising clay deposits along the riverfront, he opened the city's first one-kiln pottery in 1839. From that humble beginning, the industry burgeoned, eventually spreading up the hills and across the river. Besides sturdy kitchenware, hotel china, toilet ware, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467113743
• ISBN13: 9781467113748
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"