In existence after 1967 In 1986, local studio potter, John Falconer, opened a new firm under the name Red Wing Stoneware Company on Moundview Drive

1936-1967 The changes and additions to the ware list made around the beginning of the 20th Century accelerated as the market continued to evolve in

The Red Wing Stoneware Company, the Minnesota Stoneware Company, the Union Stoneware Company sales cooperative, and what remained only on paper of the North Star

A Sales & Marketing Cooperative The “Panic of 1893” severely affected the three stoneware companies in Red Wing. To save cost by eliminating duplication of

The stoneware clay in the Claybank pits was overlain and intermingled with veins of lower grade clay that, if fired, would not produce the clear

It’s light shown only briefly Prospects were promising in 1892, when the backers of a third stoneware factory announced its formation on March 15th. It’s

On May 11, 1883, local interests, including many of the same who were backers of the Red Wing Stoneware Company, formed another stoneware company with

Red Wing’s First Industrialized Pottery Influenced by the the work of “Mssrs. Hallam’s (sic),” and believing that a stoneware pottery company could be successful in

Red Wing’s First Stoneware Pottery English-born David Hallum had come to Red Wing by way of East Liverpool, Ohio around 1872 to work at the

Red Wing’s 1st Pottery Factory In November of 1866, a newspaper article announced that F.F. Philleo of Red Wing intended to start a pottery factory

Goodhue County’s 1st Non-Native Potter A German Potter named John Paul settled in Goodhue County in 1861 on a site later to become the clay