J. S. O’Connor American Rich Cut Glassware Factory
Posted by PA Heritage Staff 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,...read more