New Hampshire's earliest glass factory :the New England Glassworks, 1780-1782: Historical New Hampshire / David Starbuck.

Title:

New Hampshire's earliest glass factory :the New England Glassworks, 1780-1782: Historical New Hampshire / David Starbuck.

Author:

Starbuck, David R.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1984.

Physical Description:

p. 45 - 63.

Source:

Vol. 39, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1984) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

In 1780, Robert Hewes of Boston started the first glass factory in northern New England. He located it in Temple, New Hampshire, close to good supplies of wood and sand, but abandoned the site in the winter of 1781-82. Archaeologists from Boston University excavated the site between 1974 and 1978. The archaeological investigations answered many questions left unanswered by written records.

Language:

English.

Subjects:

Glass manufacture. , Industrial archaeology.

Locations:

Temple (N.H.).

People:

Hewes, Robert, 1751-1830.

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