Newell
Posted by: silverquill
N 40° 37.041 W 080° 36.596
17T E 532994 N 4496353
This roadside marker commemorates the pottery works at Newell, West virginia, on the Ohio River.
Waymark Code: WM3ZJK
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/11/2008
Views: 26
marker text:
NEWELL
Here is located the largest single pottery unit in the world. This county has been a large producer of pottery for more than a century and today West Virginia stands second among all of the states in its production.
The Homer Laughlin China Company, which makes FiestaWare dishes.
was founded in the 1870s. Stretching for more than a mile along Hancock County’s Ohio River at Newell is the Homer Laughlin China Company, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of dinnerware. Laughlin’s claims to have manufactured about one-third of all dinnerware that has ever been sold in the United States.