History of Blenko Glass.

In our journey to understand the history and science of glass making we have looked at the locations of glass companies throughout WV. We are now going to focus on the current glass companies in WV and learn a little more detail about their history before we get into the Glass making process. Lets start LOCALLY!!


Blenko Glass located in Milton WV has a beautiful and vast history in the glass industry.  The Blenko Glass wesbite  has a section on history. I took a screen shot of the site below and highlighted some things for discussion. Please read the entire article and then follow along the discussion numbers below.

 In your posts for this assignment further discuss historic aspects about the following topics.

1.  We spoke about the components of a successful glass industry in previous posts. (Resources, Energy etc.) Discuss why Milton was the most successful location for the Blenko Company and why other locations did not work.

2.  This talks about the boom of Blenko Glass that made the it a household name. Discuss why in 1930 Blenko branched out from stained glass and became very popular.

Other interesting websites that will help you answer these questions in detail are:

The Blenko Musesum
Blenko Archive
Blenko Glass Project

I highlighted 3 and 4 to share general information. Number 3 Richard Blenko is the reason why certain states have specific pieces that represent just that state (i.e the Iowa piece from the previous video.)  and finally Number 4 is the Current President of Blenko.