The Mckearin chart number GXV-26 Whitney Glass works half pint flask.

[Steve/sewell]

I wonder what the air quality index was on this day.[8D]The main building is to the right in this drawing you are viewing it from it's left side.This place was big.This is why so much glass was found here Joe.

 

[Steve/sewell]

As a comparison for size the Moore Brothers plant (the old Fislerville glass works1850 to 1860) were one fourth the size of the Whitney glass works.The current day Clevenger brothers works would have been just one building in the area I show which were occupied by the Moore Brothers factory in the 1860s through through 1906.This area now is dotted with residential homes in which is now Clayton New Jeresy.The Clevenger brothers building which is still standing and is a marked historic site now protecting it from demo,is maybe 60 x 40 in total size.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Well I have to get back to work. See you all later.

 

[Steve/sewell]

Ok OK,....... One more post and then I have to get back to work.If these little works with only three to four gaffers could produce as much glass as they did between 1930 and 1970(WAY TO MUCH)!!! IMAGINE how much a factory of Whitneys size could produce in a similar 40 year period.

 

[RED Matthews]

Again Steve, thanks for sharing all this related information. I can't help wondering if you are thinking of putting all this priceless information in a book, on "SOUTH JERSEY GLASS". I sure enjoy reading your coverages of valuable information. RED M.

 

[RED Matthews]

Steve; You didn't identify this little glasshouse. Please do. RED Matthews

 

[Steve/sewell]

My bad Red, that is the Clevengers factory which is still standing today.

 

[JOETHECROW]

Really cool Steve,...Thanks for taking the time to post the information, as well as your story...Mr. Gant sounds like someone very interesting and it's really cool that he got you onto that construction site...A win/win situation for you guys and him..... Do you still have any of those bottles? I have quite a few of the bottles that I dug years back, and I they become more meaningful as I get older....

 

[Steve/sewell]

Joe we pulled so much slag,broken almost whole and whole bottles we couldnt hall them all home.We were hiding nice whiskey bottles in the dirt piles and marking them with an obvious to us only marking so others could not find them until we returned.Yes I still have at least two fifty to three hundred common,not so common and rare bottles from the works.The privy diggers like yourself here at the forum would have gone totally bonkers,There was glass of every color sticking out of the ground.Imagine an area the size of a football field in size to dig and walk around looking for bottles in.If you were healthy enough to be able to bend over and dig just a tad they were yours for the taking.All of the keepers were 1850 to 1900.Surprisingly we found none of the machine mold ABM bottles that actually were the final nail in the coffin for the Whitney works.They made them for three years 1906 to 1909.

 

[JOETHECROW]

[]Yes,..I could easily see myself 'going totally bonkers' in a place like that...[]