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OhioRiverPottery.com -- An American Dinnerware Identification Web Site
  • Location: Chester, West Virginia
  • Products: dinerware
  • Founder(s): John Smith, Charles Taylor, William Taylor, Joseph Lee
  • Dates of operation: 1899 - 1981 (Anchor Hocking owned TS&T from 1971 - 1981)
  • Reason for closure: It has been learned that Anchor Hocking purchased the old TS&T plant as a tax write-off and eventually closed. The plant still stands today but in serious disrepair.

TS&T Factory as viewed from the Jennings Randolf Bridge in Chester, WV (summer of 1997)

Artifacts from the old TS&T plant
Kiln furniture
Pyrometric cones. These would deform at
certain temperatures which allowed operators to
measure the heat in the kiln.

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