Wayne County: A History Deep and Clear

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Wayne County: A History Deep and Clear The Land of Lakes, it might best be called. Its sweeping verdant valleys and velvety golden meadows harbor dozens of picturesque settlements – and more than a hundred natural and artificial lakes. Its resorts teem with summer colonists – primarily expatriate New Yorkers escap­ing the stifling heat of Manhat­tan in August – and recall a less frenzied era when there seemed to be...
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J. S. O’Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on J. S. O’Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory With abundant hardwood for fuel and sizable deposits of sand in its more than one hundred lakes, Wayne County attracted glassmakers as early as 1807, but it wasn’t until the closing decades of the nineteenth century that it became a center for glass production and, especially, glass decoration. Following the founding of Christian Dorflinger’s famous glassworks in White Mills in 1865,...
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