Greenwood China Company

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In operation    1890-c.1929

Wares

Hotel chinaTableware

Hotel china; chinaware (Industrial Directory 1901)

Chinaware (Industrial Directory 1906)

Vitrified china (Industrial Directory 1906)

Chinaware (Industrial Directory 1909)

Vitrified china (Industrial Directory 1912)

Hotel china (Industrial Directory 1918)

Vitrified china (Industrial Directory 1918)

Vitrified hotel china (Industrial Directory 1927)

Notes

Built on the site of the Trenton Lock and Hardware Company plant. The pottery was established in 1890 and had ceased to function by 1929.

— Harney, W.J. 1929. “Trenton’s First Potteries.” Sunday Times Advertiser, July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1929.

Selected References

Fitzgerald, Thomas F. 1891-1900.  Fitzgerald’s Trenton and Mercer County Directory, Together with a Directory of Bordentown, Burlington, Mount Holly and Lambertville, NJ and Morrisville, PA, Included a Fund of Information Concerning Public and Private Institutions, National, State, County, City and Borough Governments, Gathered from Reliable and Official Sources.  Thomas F. Fitzgerald, Trenton, New Jersey.

Harney, W.J. 1929. “Trenton’s First Potteries.” Sunday Times Advertiser, July 7, 14, 21 and 28, 1929.

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. 1989.  American Porcelain, 1770-1920.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.

Other Names

Greenwood China Company

Historic Street Address:
Muirhead Avenue; Muirhead Avenue opposite Ott Street

Municipality:
City of Trenton

Map Gallery

Greenwood China Company, 1890 Scarlett & Scarlett
Greenwood China Company, 1890 Sanborn Map
Greenwood China Company, 1905 Lathrop
Greenwood China Company, 1908 Sanborn Map
Greenwood China Company, 1927 Sanborn Map
Map References

Sanborn‑Perris Map Company.  1890.   Insurance Maps of the City of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Sanborn‑Perris Map Company, New York, New York.  (Plate 41: shown as “Trenton Lock and Hardware Co.”)

Scarlett & Scarlett.  1890.   Scarlett & Scarlett’s Fire Insurance Map of Mercer County.  Scarlett & Scarlett, Newark, New Jersey.  (Plate 57, shown as “Greenwod China Co.”)

Lathrop, J. M. 1905.   Atlas of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton. A.H. Mueller & Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Plate 9: shown as “Greenwood China Co.”)

Sanborn Map Company.  1908.  Insurance Maps of the City of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, Volume 1. Sanborn Map Company, New York, New York.  (Vol.1, plate 36: shown as “Greenwood China Co.”)

Sanborn Map Company.  1927.  Insurance Maps of the City of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Sanborn Map Company, New York, New York.  (Vol.1, plate 53: shown as “Greenwood China Co.”)

Franklin Survey Co.  1930.  Real Estate Plat‑Book of the City of Trenton and Borough of Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey. Franklin Survey Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Plate 30: shown as “Greenwood China Co.”)