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9 MAYBE YOU OWN GLASS FROM HAWLEY The Hawley Glass Company was recognized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Wayne, on July 3, 1882, as a limited partnership. The statement forming the partnership read: “The undersigned form a fraternship association for the purpose of conditioning in the United States the manufacture of glassware and of purchasing and selling all kinds of goods, wares, and merchandise, whose principal office or place of business shall be established at the Village of Hawley.” Hawley Glass Works existed from 1882 to 1925. Among the original capital investors was William F. Dorflinger. Throughout its many years of operation it represented the major industry in Hawley, but it should be pointed out that its products in no way competed with those produced in the Dorflinger factory a few miles away in White Mills. A LITTLE MORE OF OUR HISTORY The Borough of Hawley was incorporated in the year 1884, named in honor of Irad Hawley, the first President of Pennsylvania Coal Company. The progress and development of the town was due to the coal shipping activities of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The coal was brought in by the Gravity Railroad and loaded onto barges for delivery via the Erie Canal to New York. For years, the glass blowing and cutting industry flourished bringing prosperity to the town. Hawley also achieved fame as a broad-silk weaving center. The John C. Welwood building, made of native cut blue stone and the largest of its kind in Pennsylvania, is today our landmark Silk Mill. You can’t miss it as you drive into town from the south on Rt. 6.