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Jugtown Pottery was founded in 1921 [2] by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, who in 1917 discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County. There, they found a local tradition of utilitarian pottery in orange, earthenware , and salt glazes .
The Jugtown area was first settled by Europeans around 1730, springing up around a crossroads on the King's Highway. John Morton established the first pottery in the village in 1766. The 19th century saw the community grow, spurred by commercial development and trade on the Delaware and Raritan Canal. The latter half of the century saw the ...
White and Company's Goose Lake Stoneware Manufactury is an archaeological site located at 5010 N. Jugtown Road in the Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area, near Morris, Illinois. The site, as well as the nearby tile works site, was part of a large White and Company plant used to manufacture stoneware and tile. The manufactury, which operated ...
Also known as Jugtown, Sterrett was once home to at least ten potters. [5] The pottery produced here was classified as being part of the East Alabama style of pottery, which used high quality clay and a two-toned glaze decoration. [6] William Hilliard Falkner purchased the Sterrett Pottery Works in 1874 and operated it until 1903.
Jugtown may refer to a location in the United States: Gardendale, Alabama, formerly known as Jugtown; Jugtown, Maryland, a census-designated place; Jugtown, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place; Jugtown Historic District, Princeton, New Jersey; Jugtown Pottery in Seagrove, North Carolina, a location listed on the National Register of ...
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Alliance is an unincorporated community in the northwestern part of Whitewater Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States. [1]The community was named after the organization Farmer's Alliance, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers which had been organized in Illinois in 1880.
Potters occasionally substituted manganese or iron oxide for cobalt oxide to produce brown, instead of blue, decorations on the pottery. In the last half of the 19th century, potters in New England and New York state began producing stoneware with elaborate figural designs such as deer, dogs, birds, houses, people, historical scenes and other ...