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Hazel-Atlas Glass Company History

Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, Washington, Pennsylvania (1902-1977).

This company began in 1902 with the merger of the Atlas Glass and Metal Company with its neighbor, the Hazel Glass Company (founded 1885 as a manufacturer of fruit jars and bottles). The merger was a success from the beginning, and soon additional factories were set up in cities across the U.S. During the 1920s, the Clarksburg, West Virginia plant, which specialized in the production of tumblers and other house-wares, was one of the most fully automated factories in the country. In the 1930s-1950s, factories in Zanesville, Ohio, Washington, Pennsylvania, Blackwell, Oklahoma, Clarksburg, Grafton, and Wheeling, West Virginia, produced mold blown glassware, containers, and mold etched, machine-made patterns. In 1956 Hazel-Atlas was acquired by the Continental Can Company who continued producing and selling glass under the Hazelware label. In 1964 the Brockway Glass Company acquired six of the old Hazel-Atlas plants in an anti-trust lawsuit settlement, but the Clarksburg factory, which produced the Hazelware line, remained with Continental Can until 1972 when it too was sold to Brockway. In 1977 the Clarksburg plant was sold to Anchor Hocking who operated it until it was closed in 1987. The plant burned in 2000 and was demolished in 2001.

? From The Glass Candlestick Book, volume 2, by Tom Felt, Rich & Elaine Stoer (reprinted with permission)

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