A Selection of 19th Century Stoneware Pipes Recovered in Mogadore, Portage County, Ohio

I came across these a while back - a collection of nineteenth century molded stoneware pipes that were recovered from the site of the circa 1880-1896 Akron Smoking Pipe Company in Mogadore, Portage County, Ohio. These types of pipes were made all over America in the 1800s and have even been recovered at Civil War encampment sites, although it is good to see the variety made at this particular pottery business. Similar shaped red earthenware and stoneware pipes were made in the Midwest, in the South, in Western Pennsylvania, among other places, including at a pottery in the Lake Winnipesaukee area, which will be discussed in my forthcoming 651-page New Hampshire book.

According to archaeologist James L. Murphy, "Nine different shaped nineteenth century reed-stem tobacco pipes were recovered from a village in the town of Mogadore, Ohio. Most, if not all, of these are believed to have been manufactured by the Akron Smoking Pipe Company, of Mogadore between 1884 and 1895. Many Mogadore pipes are distinguishable by virtue of mold marks found in the bottom of the pipe bowl."

Note: For more information - see an article written in 1974 by James L. Murphy and Kurt Reich for the Pennsylvania Archaeologist, titled, Nineteenth Century Reed-Stem Tobacco Pipes from the Mogadore, Ohio, Dump: https://kb.osu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/ae2278e5-333b-5e39-ba3f-b953fea76997/content.

Stoneware Pipes Recovered in Mogadore, Portage County, Ohio

19th Century Stoneware Pipes Recovered in Mogadore, Portage County, Ohio

Recovered at the Site of the Akron Smoking Pipe Company

Circa 1880-1896

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Another View of the Pipes

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