Excelsior Works & Isaac Hewitt pottery

Issac Hewitt with six workers and three pottery wheels made stoneware at Rice’s Landing, Pennsylvania in the 1870′s. He termed his operation the “Excelsior Works” and stencil decorated his work with his and company name plus Rice’s Landing, Pa. (Price’s Landing Penna. and a Hewett spelling is also known). Hewitt is reported to have made 45,000 gallons of stoneware in the 1870′s, or about $6,500 worth in the currency of the day.