The Keene Marlboro Street South Glass Works
In 1815 Timothy Twitchell and Daniel Watson withdrew from the window glass works at Keene and they along with the Current Superintendent of the Vermont based Salisbury Glass Works built a flint glass factory for hollow ware a short distance away that became known as the Marlboro Street South Glass Works.
Schoolcraft was the glass expert amongst the three partners having acted as Superintendent at the Salisbury Vermont Glass works for 4 years prior. Young Henry needed to journey back one more time to sever ties with the Vermont factory. It was on the return trip that Henry didn't make a B-line for Keene but instead visited the finest glass works available in South Boston and at Cambridge. It was during this whirl wind tour he lured and secured sixteen glassmen to come work at the new glass works in Keene at Marlboro Street.
This moving about of the glassmen from factory to factory probably explains the dichotomy in the flask styles and designs in most of the early New England Glass Works. Another likely reason of the similar styles at all of the competing glass works was the likelihood of one large mold shop providing the custom molds to each individual factory. Henry Schoolcraft would not stay in the glass business very long for in the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his assistant Levi Pettibone were well on there way to explore the Ozarks in Arkansas and Missouri with the intent of documenting their observations. The two men made there way to the Ozarks to document the climate, landscape, native peoples, antiquities, and mineral/natural resources.
Unlike Lewis and Clark, who were commissioned by the government, Schoolcraft was the lone financier of his own expedition. His main goal was publishing his findings about the mineral resources of the area but a more important interest was that a profit would be realized by the publishing of his findings. The expedition began at Mine à Breton (pronounced Mine à Burton by the miners), which became the site of modern day Potosi, MO. He began the ninety-day journey on November 5, 1818 and traveled more than 900 miles before returning to Potosi on Feb 4th, 1819. Schoolcraft passed near modern day Salem, Houston, and Cabool, all relatively close to Rolla, during his travels across the Ozarks. Later locations visited included areas near Branson, Springfield, Mountain Home, AR, Batesville, AR, Poplar Bluff, and Farmington.
Schoolcraft’s detailed reports of the Ozarks were the first of their kind for the area. Although Henry wasn’t the first white man to explore the area, he was infact the first to document his observations in great detail. The same was true for Lewis and Clark as they explored the western U.S. Schoolcraft was successful in documenting his explorations through the interior of the Ozarks.
As stated earlier, the main goal of the trip was to document the mineral resources of Missouri. This led Schoolcraft to travel to areas that were known to have lead or some other mineral resource. The French discovered and had been mining lead ore in the area since the early 1700’s. Schoolcraft was a restless soul but it was the constant need for new stimulation that led Schoolcraft to be an early Renaissance man always thinking always putting thoughts and actions into motion.
Schoolcraft was the glass expert amongst the three partners having acted as Superintendent at the Salisbury Vermont Glass works for 4 years prior. Young Henry needed to journey back one more time to sever ties with the Vermont factory. It was on the return trip that Henry didn't make a B-line for Keene but instead visited the finest glass works available in South Boston and at Cambridge. It was during this whirl wind tour he lured and secured sixteen glassmen to come work at the new glass works in Keene at Marlboro Street.
This moving about of the glassmen from factory to factory probably explains the dichotomy in the flask styles and designs in most of the early New England Glass Works. Another likely reason of the similar styles at all of the competing glass works was the likelihood of one large mold shop providing the custom molds to each individual factory. Henry Schoolcraft would not stay in the glass business very long for in the winter of 1818, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his assistant Levi Pettibone were well on there way to explore the Ozarks in Arkansas and Missouri with the intent of documenting their observations. The two men made there way to the Ozarks to document the climate, landscape, native peoples, antiquities, and mineral/natural resources.
Unlike Lewis and Clark, who were commissioned by the government, Schoolcraft was the lone financier of his own expedition. His main goal was publishing his findings about the mineral resources of the area but a more important interest was that a profit would be realized by the publishing of his findings. The expedition began at Mine à Breton (pronounced Mine à Burton by the miners), which became the site of modern day Potosi, MO. He began the ninety-day journey on November 5, 1818 and traveled more than 900 miles before returning to Potosi on Feb 4th, 1819. Schoolcraft passed near modern day Salem, Houston, and Cabool, all relatively close to Rolla, during his travels across the Ozarks. Later locations visited included areas near Branson, Springfield, Mountain Home, AR, Batesville, AR, Poplar Bluff, and Farmington.
Schoolcraft’s detailed reports of the Ozarks were the first of their kind for the area. Although Henry wasn’t the first white man to explore the area, he was infact the first to document his observations in great detail. The same was true for Lewis and Clark as they explored the western U.S. Schoolcraft was successful in documenting his explorations through the interior of the Ozarks.
As stated earlier, the main goal of the trip was to document the mineral resources of Missouri. This led Schoolcraft to travel to areas that were known to have lead or some other mineral resource. The French discovered and had been mining lead ore in the area since the early 1700’s. Schoolcraft was a restless soul but it was the constant need for new stimulation that led Schoolcraft to be an early Renaissance man always thinking always putting thoughts and actions into motion.