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23 lut 2016 · Mount Vernon Ohio, approximately 50 miles north east of Columbus, was once a thriving center of manufacturing, including the Pittsburgh Plate Glass plant, a commercially successful factory that opened in 1907 and occupied 70 acres in the center of town.
28 sie 2020 · More than a century ago, a Pittsburgh based glass producer opened a burgeoning plant right in the middle of rural central Ohio. The PPG Glass Company constructed its massive Works #11 plant...
Though its construction cost $300,000, the Coxey Building was sold for $60,717 and renamed Mambourg Window Glass Company. Raising the standard for glass production, the company eventually invented the Pennvernon process, named after its ties to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and creation in Mount Vernon.
A “river” made from glass left behind during the site’s manufacturing days cuts through the earth on one side of the park, frozen in time. The park is an homage to Pittsburgh Plate Glass, whose company once dominated the small city.
In the early years PPG had manufactured only plate glass. It marketed but did not produce window glass, or sheet glass. In 1907, however, the first window-glass factory was added to company operations, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. In 1915 a second plant was opened in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
A selection of 50 photographs from the PPG Industries Records have been digitized and placed online. These photographs were selected to reflect the collection’s documentation of the company’s place in the industries of glass, paint, and chemical production.
30 cze 2021 · Ariel-Foundation Park is located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Park consists of 250-acres. It sits on the former sites of Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Goodwin Sand and Gravel. The main attraction of the park is the Rastin Observation Tower.
