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[ Peoria Pottery on eBay ]
Peoria, Illinois
- Founded as the American Pottery Co, by Christopher Webber Fenton after the failure of his United States Pottery in Vermont
- Produced yellowware, also whiteware untill 1863
- 1863 closed due to the civil war
- 1873 reopened and the name was changed to the Peoria Pottery Company
- 1893 exhibited Dinnerware at the Columbian Exposition
- 1902 acquired by Crown Pottery of Evansville Indiana, and merged to become Crown Potteries
- 1904 closed
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