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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 .
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 decline of Jugtown's industry. It was home to the short-lived Evelyn College for Women from 1887 to 1897. The district's ...
Nancy Sweezy (October 14, 1921 – February 6, 2010) [1] was an American artist, author, folklorist, advocate, scholar, and preservationist.Known initially for her work as a potter in the 1950s, Sweezy became a scholar of the history and creation of pottery and wrote several authoritative texts and books on U.S. and international folk pottery.
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 ...
At one point in its history, Sterrett was a center of pottery production in central Alabama. 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]
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.