STRASBURG POTTERY TIMELINE

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1000 (?) A.D. - Native Americans make pottery in the Strasburg Area

1730s - First European settlers arrive

1761 - Sabbatarians make pottery on Sandy Hook

1793 - Philip Grim noted as "potter" in Deed Book

1805 - Adam Keister begins producing pottery in Strasburg

1817 - Solomon Bell bom in Hagerstown Maryland

1820s - Adam Keister produces the first stoneware in Strasburg

1830s - John Miller produces pottery in Strasburg

1843 - Samuel Bell moves to Strasburg from Winchester to make pottery

1845 - Solomon Bell joins his brother in Strasburg

1847 ~ Adam Keister dies (buried St. Paul Lutheran cemetery, Strasburg)

1859 - Letcher Eberly bom

1860 - W. H. Lehew noted as a potter in the federal census

1861 - 1865 - Civil War disrupts pottery production

1874 - J. Eberly pottery business opens

1870s - 1890s - "Golden Age" of Strasburg pottery, many partnerships formed and dissolved

1882 - Solomon Bell dies (buried St. Paul Lutheran cemetery, Strasburg)

1891 - "Steam Pottery" built

1897 - Last order received by Steam Pottery

1910 - Ashby Bell (son of Samuel) last Golden Age potter working in Strasburg

1913 - Steam Pottery building sold to railroad

1929 - Bell Pottery kiln (Queen & Depot Streets) torn down

1929 - Rice & Stoudt publish The Shenandoah Pottery

1950s - Virginia Cadden begins collecting Strasburg pottery

1969 - Strasburg Incorporated formed to create Strasburg Museum

1971 - Strasburg Museum opens in the old Steam Pottery Building

2002 - "Virginia Cadden Pottery Room" opens in Strasburg Museum

This list was prepared by John Adamson on June 18, 2011 for the Pottery Fest