Hmm...I never saw this original message either (besides the dead cats in
the walls one).
In case the person who posed the question doesnt have the reference Dan
mentioned...here is some info online (I never can restrain myself from
searching) for EGW (1836-1896).
http://www.hopefarm.com/ulster1.htm
"This company was organized in 1836 by a group of glass makers from
Coventry and Willington, Connecticut, headed by Jasper Gilbert."
That's just the first sentence of the large paragraph....if it's accurate
info. ??
And here's an article on the cargo recovered from the buried/sunk (?) Civil
War-era Maple Leaf (ship)...including an Ellenville Glass Works
bottle...with the contents still
inside. http://mapleleafshipwreck.com/Book/Chapter9/chapter9.htm
And from a bottle-diggers website...a mention of EGW cylinder
whiskies...from privy & cistern digging in
Brooklyn. http://www.glswrk-auction.com/006.htm
And finally...there's this from an EIS:
"In upstate New York, the Ellenville Glass Works, which operated between
1837 and 1894, was excavated in the early 1980s by Dumont Archaeological
Surveys...."
"Archeological excavations uncovered subsurface air ducts for the furnaces,
foundation walls, numerous glass flasks, and fragments of bottles and canes
(Dumont 1980b:109). The site represents one of the few controlled
excavations of a mid-to-late 19th-century glasshouse."
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/hyards/hy_app_k_t2.pdf (page 55)
Might be of interest to get this Dumont excavation report. ??
That's all....I'm going home...
At 10:32 PM 10/25/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>The McKearnins' American Glass has a page or two plus other info scattered
>on the Ellenville Glass works.
>
>McKearin, George J., and Helen McKearin. 1948. American Glass. Crown
>Publishers, Inc.. New York, NY
>
>Pages 182 and 183.
>
>Boiled down for brevity:
>
>It was established at Warwarising, later called Ellenville, in 1836 (not
>1816) by a group of men associated with the Willington Glass Co., of West
>Willington, CT. They made a great variety of bottles, window glass, and
>they also made whimseys such as hats, rolling pins and canes. There are
>lots more in the details of this work.
>
>There is little info at all in the companion work:
>
>McKearin, Helen, and Kenneth M. Wilson. 1978. American Bottles and Flasks
>and Their Ancestry. Crown Publishers, Inc.. New York, NY
>
> Dan W.
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