Mountain Hopping 2016:
In search of America's lost potteries
In May 2016, with the sound of cicadas providing much of the soundtrack, we headed to West Virginia and Pennsylvania with the goal of putting our feet on the sites of six manufacturers of commercial china that have long been closed, abandoned, burned, razed and/or cleaned up as EPA superfund sites.
From one dot on the map in Ravenswood, W.V., to the last in Falls Creek in the Pennsylvania Wilds, it would be 375 miles of mountains.
We've documented the trip, hoping to give anyone else who is curious an idea of where these plants were actually located. In only one instance did we have a street address (Shenango); for the rest we had a few notes with vague references gleaned off the Internet.
Mostly, like Blanche DuBois, we depended on the kindness of strangers to find our way.
The Stops:
TRENLE-BLAKE – Ravenswood, W.V.
McNICOL – Clarksburg, W.V.
CARR – Grafton, W.V.
MAYER – Beaver Falls, Penn.
SHENANGO – New Castle, Penn.
JACKSON – Falls Creek, Penn.
Digging in West Virginia, Pennsylvania & Ohio
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