Hull Pottery began production in 1905 in Crooksville, Ohio, under the leadership of Addis Emmet (A.E.) Hull.
The A.E. Hull Pottery Company’s early lines consisted of common utilitarian stoneware, semi-porcelain dinnerware and decorative tile, and the company quickly established a firm market and enjoyed an excellent reputation for producing quality ceramics.
On June 19, 1950, the [...]

The company that became Fulper Pottery was begun in 1814 in Flemington, New Jersey by a young Samuel Hill, a potter originally from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Hill was a utilitarian potter and Hill Pottery produced drain pipes and storage crocks and jars from Flemington’s red earthenware clay.
Upon Samuel Hill’s death in 1858, pottery [...]

Gracetone Pottery was produced from 1959 to 1967.
John Frank purchased a Muskogee, Oklahoma company named Synar Ceramics in September, 1957, eventually naming it Gracetone in December. He designed a new line of dinnerware named Orbit, the name based on a circular motif. Many of the original Synar pieces continued production.
Unfortunately the company did [...]

Gladding, McBean & Co. formed in 1875 to produce sewer tile for the then expanding American West.
Gladding, McBean & Co., began production of Franciscan dinnerware in 1934 at their plant in Glendale, California.
Over the years they acquired several regional potteries and expanded their product lines several times to include roof tile, decorative art tiles, [...]

Georgia is famed for its bountiful clay resources.
It is not the state’s ubiquitous red clay that has been exploited commercially, but more localized clays such as kaolin and fuller’s earth.
Most important in the story of Georgia folk pottery is stoneware clay, concentrated as alluvial deposits along middle Georgia’s fall line and scattered above [...]

Grueby Pottery was founded by William Grueby in 1897.
Grueby was producing pottery as early as 1894.
Grueby produced art pottery until about 1909 at which time the company focused on art tiles. During this relatively short period of production, Grueby Pottery arguably had more of an impact on American arts and crafts pottery than [...]

Dedham Pottery was produced by the Robertson family in Dedham, Massachusetts between 1896 and 1943.
Its distinctive blue-and-gray crackle glaze was the result of chance, but the pottery’s founder, Hugh Robertson, quickly realized that this accidental result gave the new pottery an aged look.
Combined with the blue and gray color, and the borders of rabbits [...]

Haeger Potteries, headquartered on the clay-rich banks of Illinois’ Fox River just 45 miles northwest of Chicago, shares significant history with its giant neighbor, known as “the most American” of major American cities.
In 1871, the same year of the great Chicago fire, a young German immigrant named David H. Haeger founded the company originally known [...]

The Henn Family has handcrafted the finest dinnerware, bakeware, serving pieces, accessories and home furnishings on their Homestead in Warren, Ohio for five generations.
Today, HENN proudly carries on that tradition through their extensive line of handmade pottery, baskets, wrought iron and candles.
All of the collectibles handcrafted at HENN boast the same commitment to [...]

Mary Alice Hadley established one of Louisville’s most iconic and well-known potteries.
She was born into a family of clay tile makers where her knowledge of working with clay first developed, and became a widely recognized painter, winning numerous awards and acclaim from New York to Los Angeles.
By the late 1930’s Mary Alice Hadley began [...]