New England Glassworks Site

Address Restricted, Temple, New Hampshire. County/parish: Hillsborough.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 10, 1975. NRIS 75000127.

1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Temple Glassworks Site

From Wikipedia:

New England Glassworks

The New England Glassworks was a short-lived glass-making factory located in Temple, New Hampshire in the 1780s, and one of the first glassworks in the United States. Founded in 1780 by Robert Hewes, a Boston-based businessman, the glassworks employed Hessian deserters from the British forces of the American Revolutionary War. The glassworks was established in 1780 and failed due to a lack of financing in 1783. Its abandoned site was excavated in the 1970s, and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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