Millersburg Glass Museum

Local business

484 Wooster Road(State Route 83)
44654 Millersburg
United States

Phone: 330-674-0022

Come check out our NEW location next to the Victorian House

The History of Millersburg Glass

John W. Fenton left Fenton Art Glass in Williamstown, West Virginia, in mid-1908 to promote the idea of a new glass plant in Millersburg. This venture quickly caught on with local business leaders, many of whom became investors in the enterprise. Sales of company stock financed the purchase of land. Groundbreaking for the new glass factory took place on September 14, 1908.

The Millersburg area newspapers reported on every aspect of the plant’s construction, and there was much local interest when the state-of-the-art facility was completed in May 1909. The first glass products were crystal, but the Millersburg Plant soon decided to ride the wave of enthusiasm for iridescent glassware that had been started by the Fenton Art Glass Company in 1907-1908.

In early 1910, the Millersburg company brought out its line of “Radium” glassware. One trade publication described its “brilliancy” as “all the soft colors of changeable silk”. Patterns for the new Radium ware were likely designed by John W Fenton, and there is evidence that some of the firm’s products were exported to England.

The Millersburg Glass Co. struggled financially from the outset and bills were left unpaid due to excessive design costs and lack of profitable sales. Many creditors pursued legal actions against the company in 1911. The firm went into receivership and then into bankruptcy. A single, key stockholder purchased all of the company’s assets with a view to resuming glass production. The Millersburg Glass Co. was reorganized as the Radium Glass Co. in late 1911, but production lasted only a few months before the plant was shut down in May 1911.

The Museum displays more than 275 pieces of Millersburg Crystal and Carnival Glass in custom built, illuminated cabinets. Tours are welcome.

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