From the Museum of Connecticut Glass
The Pitkin Glass Works 1783-1830
Connecticut's first successful glassworks was formed by William Pitkin, his cousin Elisha Pitkin and Samuel Bishop and they were granted a 25 year exclusive privelage from the states general assembly to produce all types of glass. The Pitkin family was large, old and influential with many land holdings in pre-and-post revolutinary pies including guns, gunpowder, textiles, flour, iron, silver, tobacco and snuff. Two of the names of former superintendents and managers are Robert Hewes of the Temple glassworks fame in New Hampshire and John P. Foster, whose initials are embossed and appear on an inkwell and a figured flask GII-57. The glassworks has always been considered a bottle glasshouse of which commercial products blown there consisted of chestnuts, demijohns, utilities, snuffs, globular bottles and tableware like pitchers, creamers, bowls & pans.
Once at the listed coordinates you will be looking at the remains of the Pitkins Glass Works. In order to log this cache as a find you must message or email me the answere to the following questions.
1. How many arched doorways still remain at what is left of the building?
2. There is a sign on a metal post inside of the fence. On that sign it tells that Capt Richard Pitkin and his sons were granteda monopoly by the assembly to manufacture glass and what other product?
Optional: provide a picture of yourself or a personal item with the remains in the background.
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