Clay Smoking Pipes
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vhasler
N 37° 16.529 W 078° 41.239
17S E 705043 N 4127940
Local area was major manufacturing center for clay pipes used for smoking
Waymark Code: WMBF9B
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 05/14/2011
Views: 4
Marker Text:
M-67
Clay Smoking Pipes
According to local tradition, residents of this region were making clay smoking pipes here by the mid-eighteenth century. By 1879 the Pamplin Pipe Factory was in operation. Machines there were used to mold clay into pipes, which were then allowed to dry. After drying, the pipes were fired in a kiln, cooled, and shipped in barrels throughout the world. By 1919 the clay pipe industry had peaked, but the factory supplied a national and international market well into the 1930s. The factory may have produced one million pipes a month at the height of its output. The factory closed by 1952.
Marker Number: M-67
Marker Title: Clay Smoking Pipes
Marker Location: Along US460
County or Independent City: Appomattox County
Web Site: [Web Link]
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources, 2001
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