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Monday, September 4, 2017
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Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway House of Webster food gift company of Rogers, Arkansas. Dozens of pottery designs such as Pottery manufacturing was a churns, telephones, apples, serious industry from the earliest thimbles, and beehives are times of Texas settlement. The weight of pottery churns, jugs, and produced to contain their other household utilitarian pottery homemade preserves, apple butter, and honey. prevented settlers from bringing pottery produced in the north and east in wagons to Texas. However, Other known Texas potteries were Royal Leslie Pottery, Adah Art in immigrant Texas potters brought Dallas their pottery-making skills with them. The Kirbee, the Wilson, and Lone Star Ceramics, Harding Black, San Jose Mission Pottery in the Leopard potteries existed San Antonio (1940-1977) and during the early years of the successor to Mexican Arts and Republic. At least five potteries, Crafts 1920-1940, Athens Pottery Wilson, Lambert, Serran, and Cranston, and Roark were active in in Dallas (1914-1920), Ideal Denton County between 1855 and Pottery in Dallas (1922-1943), and Southern Pottery in Dallas. the 1880s. The Meyer Pottery in San Antonio was established in You will find several examples of 1887 and remained active until various Texas potteries at Howe 1964. Another early pottery was Mercantile. Marshall Pottery established in 1895. Marshall Pottery still SPECIAL NOTE: Howe remains in business. Mercantile will not be open on Of course, there is plenty of fodder Wednesdays for the foreseeable for Texas pottery collectors. Alamo pottery in San Antonio was created in 1944 and remained in business until the early 1950s. Gilmer Pottery began in 1951. Others include the Alabama Coushatta pottery in Livingston, Comanche pottery in Comanche, AthTex in Athens, and Love Field pottery of Dallas (1925-1950s). sewer pipe was made.
Dr. Georgia Caraway
One more mention about the backyard dig at Howe Mercantile. Last week I noted that the sewer pipe that was laid in the earliest days of Howe, when the sewage system was laid in the downtown area, was from the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company. Research showed that the Dickey company had pottery manufacturing plants in Texarkana and San Antonio. I dug around the yard again last weekend and found a shard that had the letters “EXARK” impressed on it. So that solves the mystery of where the
future. We experimented during the summer, but it is too difficult to schedule staffing that extra day. Perhaps we will be able to open more days during the holidays. Dr. Georgia Caraway, and her friends, opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning in April 2015. Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p.m. We are excited to have Bucky’s Farm All Natural Goat Milk Soap made in Howe for sale. Georgia, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, has written five Denton history books and hopes her next book will be the history of Howe. If anyone has photos that she can copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile. SHOP LOCAL. We can show you Howe!
Horton Ceramics of Eastland (1952-1954) was the predecessor to the House of Webster Ceramics in Eastland. House of Webster produces about 200,000 pieces of pottery per year to be used by the
Streetman commits to play softball for NCTC
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Everything is a rumor until momma posts it on Facebook. This week we learned through social media that Howe senior Peyton Streetman has verbally committed to play softball for North Central Texas College after her graduation from Howe High School. She is the daughter of Marty and Gina Streetman of Howe.
