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3 unusual facts about East Liverpool


East Liverpool, Ohio

Downtown is considered to lie between Ohio State Routes 7/11/39/U.S. Route 30 in the west, College and Walnut Streets in the east, West 2nd Street in the South and Moore and Grant Streets in the North.

Though in the bordering states of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the communities of Chester and Newell, West Virginia and Glasgow, Pennsylvania owe their existence to East Liverpool's rapid population growth of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Rockingham Pottery

Jabez Vodrey and his family are notable for having made Rockingham-style ware in East Liverpool, Ohio in the mid-19th century, while Edwin Bennett was also producing it in Baltimore.


Herman Hollis

In a 1979 TIME Magazine article, East Liverpool, Ohio Police Captain Chester C. Smith claimed that Hollis killed Floyd under orders from FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

Robert Taggart Hall

Robert Taggart Hall (1877 – 1920) was owner and sometime-president of The Hall China Company in East Liverpool, Ohio.


see also

Hans Hacker

Additionally, a number of East Liverpool institutions and businesses such as the Museum of Ceramics, the Carnegie Library and the Dawson Funeral Home have Hacker's work on display.