For The Archives: The Dow And North Dakota Pottery -- July 5, 2018

Dow: I must have missed it. I knew Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc, was going to replace GE in the Dow 30 but didn't catch the day when it happened. I now see that the change has taken place.

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The Pottery Page

I thought I had posted this some years ago, but could not find it. I may not have posted it.

For the archives, from wiki:

North Dakota in the United States has been the scene of modern era pottery production using North Dakota clays since the early 1900s.

In 1892 a study was published by Earle Babcock, a chemistry instructor at the University of North Dakota (UND) that reported on the superior qualities of some of the North Dakota clays for pottery production. The UND School of Mines began operations in 1898 with Earle Babcock as director. With the assistance of several eastern potteries, pottery made from North Dakota clay was first displayed at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

From this beginning, a Ceramics Department was founded at the University and a talented potter, Margaret Kelly Cable, was hired as its director.

The university trained many of the people later involved in other pottery ventures within the state.

These include Charles Grantier who worked at Dickinson Clay Products Company (Dickota) and later served as state director of the WPA Ceramics Project. Laura Taylor (Hughes) preceded Charles Grantier as state director at WPA and later became a partner in the Wahpeton Pottery Company (Rosemeade) which operated from 1940 until 1961. The WPA project was active first in Dickinson, North Dakota and then in Mandan, North Dakota from 1936 until 1942.