1813 dated Vermont Glass Factory - $1.50 Denominated Obsolete Banknote - Currency

$1.50, Vermont Glass Factory.

Vermont’s glassmaking industry started in 1812 with the Vermont Glass Factory, a small window glass-making company built on the northern shore of Lake Dunmore in Salisbury, Vermont. It could easily be said that Vermont’s glassmaking history was set into motion by the War of 1812, when a trade embargo was placed on imported goods, blocking much of the New World’s access to such commodities as imported window glass (Heidler 1994).

As Vermont developed, with a growing population and growing prosperity, board houses rapidly replaced simpler timber houses, and, with limited transportation (railroads had not yet arrived in Vermont), there was a steadily growing need for locally made window glass in the early 19th century, where there had been none before (Basic Antiques).

Though promising at the start, Vermont’s first glassmaking factory attempt was quite short-lived. In 1949, industry gave way to summer recreation when the Lake Dunmore Hotel Company purchased the glass factory and all of its property (Basic Antiques). Despite this fact, The glass making industry in 19th century Vermont provided an essential product for the inhabitants of the Champlain Valley while it was running, and many examples of the Vermont Glass Factory’s glass survive today in private and public collections. Read more at http://community.middlebury.edu/~wamidon/historical/2012/connard.pdf