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• 1877 6 Rapp brothers from Germany began making bricks at thr Rapp Brothers Brick and Tile Co
• 1878 opened the Morton Pottery Works and began making household pottery items
• 1915 renamed to the Morton Earthenware Company
• WWI closed
  Mathew Rapp
• 1920 reopened as Cliftwood Art Potteries, Inc. under Mathew Rapp and his 4 sons
• 1932 Lamps were added under the name of Cliftwood Studio
• 1938 Mathew Rapp died
• 1940 the Pottery was sold and renamed Midwest Pottery
• 1944 Midwest was leveled by a fire and closed
• 1947 the brothers opened American Art Potteries, using a paper label "Norwood Pottery" and mark of "Planter, Inc., Chicago, Ill" for which the line was made
• 1963 sold for taxes
  Andrew Rapp
• 1922 Morton Pottery Co founded by the son's of Andrew Rapp of Rapp Brothers Brick and Tile Co and building began
  They sold products made at Cliftwood Art Potteries during the organization
• 1923 fired first production
• 1926 bought the Pilgrim Line
• 1927 fore destroyed main building and warehouse. Pilgrim line production halted
• 1929 bought the Amish Pottery line
• late 1930s started production of novelty lines
• 1956 opened a subsidiary co Morton Tile Co., making tile and bathroom fixtures
• 1967 produced "the Sears Vincent Price National Treasures Collection"
• 1969 the pottery was sold to Ronald Cowan & William York. They continued to use the name Morton Pottery
• 1971 filed bankruptsy and sold to AFK Industries
• 1972 Sold to Rival MFG. Co of Kansas City
• 1979 building demolished