Logan township

Rebecca Myton's Pottery Works

Did you know? In 1873 a mother and son started a stoneware pottery near Petersburg. Rebecca Myton and her son, Kennedy J. Myton, already ran a brickyard founded by Rebecca's husband, Samuel D. Myton, so they had experience making fired clay products.

The business directory on an 1873 map listed them as R. Myton and Son, manufacturers of stone water pipe, stone pumps and stoneware, and brick manufacturers too. Stoneware clay was mined on the Mytons' property nearby. Local clay could not make up for the falling profits of small stoneware potteries late in the century, and the pottery closed in 1896.

In 1977 a dig with participants from Juniata College and the Huntingdon County Historical Society uncovered the stone base of the kiln and a labyrinth of arched brick flue chambers. A 1991 National Park Service inventory of the county's engineering and industrial sites placed the kiln 1.2 miles southeast of Petersburg on the road to Warrior Ridge, in Logan Township. All that could be seen there then was a mound of earth overgrown with trees and weeds, with the 18 by 14 foot stone and brick base of the kiln beneath it.

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