Hubertus Plain made earthenware on the banks of the Oconto river for three years during the Civil War.
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Very little is known about this short-lived pottery. No pottery or sherds have been found. Alson Vail previously potted in Belin Wisconsin but we were unable to find much information about B. E. Brower. What we do know is the location of the pottery from a plat map of the city.
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In about 1850 Isaac Sanborn started an earthenware pottery in Twin Grove, a small village in the Jefferson Township of Green County about ten miles southeast of the city of Monroe...
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Related article: Twin Grove Pottery Site Excavation A large number of sherds were recovered from the site. This article includes photos of them and findings and conclusions about the pottery produced there.
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Louis M. Pierron was born in 1853, the son of Catherine(a) and Louis Pierron. Shortly after the death of the elder Louis, Catherine married Charles Hermann and Louis M. became Hermann’s stepson. Indications are that the German-born craftsman Charles Hermann...
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Identifying Wisconsin earthenware potteries can be challenging, and some are easily missed, especially when they are small and short-lived. If a pottery existed between census years, if no city directories…
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A pottery was operated in Baraboo from 1851 to 1857 by Philip Pointon and his son. Two earthenware pieces that initiated our research, a molded tobacco jar and a wheel turned cream pot with strong attributions in the collection of the Sauk County Historical Society...
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Ethan Griffith made pottery between 1850 and some time after 1880 in a small town near Potosi Wisconsin.
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John Klotz is yet another immigrant potter who tried his luck at his old-world craft, only to find his skills obsolete in the land of opportunity. He was born in Bohemia, a border region between present-day Germany and the Czech Republic, in which some of the population spoke German while others spoke ...
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An almost invisible potter, who would never show up as a potter in this state but for a single example of his work in the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society. He appeared as a farmer in the Town of Decatur in 1860...
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Kenneth Dearolf described John Novak pottery in “Wisconsin Folk Pottery” as redware with glazes that were “shiny brown, yellow-brown, and red-brown” from first-hand observations of ware in the possession of family descendants.
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