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Seneca Glass Company
The Morgantown History Museum houses a rather large collection of glassware handcrafted by the artisans of Seneca Glass Company, Morgantown's first glass manufacturer. The company was organized in Fostoria, Ohio in 1891 by immigrants from Germany's Black Forest. Five years later, it relocated to Morgantown taking advantage of the area's infrastructure and abundance in natural resources essential to making glass. Before its closure in August 1983, the Seneca factory, one of the country's oldest and most outstanding glassmaking facilities, had been a Morgantown fixture for nearly ninety years.
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Seneca Glass Company, 1913
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The museum's current exhibit of Seneca artifacts features commemorative glass bells, platinum-trimmed stemware, and hand-cut and hand-etched glassware. On display are also colorful artichoke pattern and driftwood casual roly-polies, optical pattern stemware, tools, and molds.
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