• The Glass Industry began at Wistar Glass Factory in Alloway, Salem County. But it really got a boost with the arrival of Jacob and Catherine Stanger and their seven sons.
  The sons worked at Wistar, but soon started Olive Glass Works in Glassboro. There skill and the pristine sand in the area, brought great notoriety to the term "South Jersey Glass".

  Glassboro, Vineland and Millville were the centers of the glass industry. 
   

  Some of the famous names in South Jersey Glass

  • Durand (Millville rose paperweight)

  • Stanger

  • Wistar

  • Kuntz

  • Larson

  A good General History of Glass making

  Good articles at oldsouthjerseyglass.com

   

The National Park Service has a new history of Glass industry online. Great Job!

• Heritage Glass Museum
• Historic Glass Houses
• The Estellville Glassworks
• The T.C. Wheaton Glass Factory
•  Wheaton Village -
                              Museum of American Glass

• Whitall Tatum Company
                       -A South Jersey Glass House

  other eary Glass works in New Jersey

  P.C. Dummer Glass Company in Jersey City

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  Current Glass Work

   

  Fire art from the Courier Post January 2006

   

  Pictures taken by the happy attendees of the recent Wheaton Village Marble Weekend

      If you really get into Glass Art  you can enroll in the Associates Degree program at Salem Community College.

Paul J Stankard one of the instructors at SCC

Wow! If you like glass, check out -  glassartists.org.