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Portage – De Witt Street Pottery 1859 -1863

The Dewitt Street Pottery was the first pottery factory opened in Portage by Farrar and Russell. Portage is a city located in central Wisconsin north west of Madison, the state capitol. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet made the two-mile portage at this location from the Fox River to the Wisconsin River in their quest to reach the Mississippi River.

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Kewaskum – Anton Fuchs Pottery

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Anton (Anselm) Fuchs operated an earthenware pottery in Kewaskum from about 1867 to the mid-1880’s. Prior to that he had stints in Milwaukee and the Belgium area. His redware milk pitchers have been found in the Washington County area and the village of Kewaskum.

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Wisconsin Pottery Sites Directory

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This is a directory listing of over 100 sites where pottery was manufactured in Wisconsin between 1840 and 1890.

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Menasha – Leonard Rohrer Pottery 1869 – 1873

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In 1866 Leonard Rohrer purchased the Bachelder pottery that had been closed since about 1866 and re-fired the kilns. He made high quality salt-glazed and cobalt decorated stoneware for about four years when the pottery burned.

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Berlin Potteries

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For years this style of pottery has been attributed to “Whitewater” due to similarities with ware produced there. We are reasonably certain now that they were actually made at two potteries in Berlin that operated between 1855 and about 1864.

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