Editing Greensboro, Pennsylvania (section)

===Glass===
[[Albert Gallatin]] and several of his partners in Albert Gallatin & Co. founded the "glassworks district" with the help of German glassblowers Christian Kramer, Boltzer Kramer, John Gabler, Adolf Eberhart, Lewis Reitz and George Reppert.<ref name=carnegie>{{cite web| title=Albert Gallatin & Co.: 1795-1803| url=http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/pittsburgh/patentees/albertgallatinco.html| website=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh| publisher=Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh| access-date=7 August 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607043352/http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/pittsburgh/patentees/albertgallatinco.html| archive-date=7 June 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Gallatin first met the glassblowers in 1792 at Tomlinson's Tavern in the mountains of [[Maryland]]. The glassworkers had left the recently closed Amelung Works of [[Frederick, Maryland]], and were planning on migrating to Mays Landing, Kentucky, to set up a new glass factory. Gallatin reputedly persuaded them to establish a glassworks on his land in New Geneva.

The glassblowers went to see both New Geneva and the Mays Landing site. When notes were finally compared New Geneva was chosen. After much discussion, a co-partnership was entered into between Gallatin and James A. Nicholson on the one hand and the German glassblowers on the other. This partnership lasted until 1803, during which time the [[New Geneva Glass Works]] produced window glass for the early pioneers as well as bottles, bowls, and other items.

Following his appointment to the cabinet, Gallatin determined to withdraw from the glass firm and advertised on May 7, 1803, in [[Tree of Liberty (newspaper)|''The Tree of Liberty'']] (a Pittsburgh newspaper), "Sale by Auction...One undivided half of the New Geneva Glassworks, a ferry across the Monongahela River, sundry lots and dwelling houses in the town of Greensboro.. ."

The Germans continued operations at New Geneva until 1807, when they moved the works to present-day glassworks near Greensboro because of the discovery of an outcrop of coal at that place.

The use of coal instead of the wood used at New Geneva greatly facilitated glass production, and its great abundance at Greensboro along with the nearby sand deposits supplied the works with most of the necessary raw materials until they closed in 1849.

Managed by the Kramers and operated by the Kramers and the other German families, the old glassworks produced window glass, with individual glassworkers blowing bottles, bowls and ornaments as gifts for family and friends. All of them worked for wages, dividing the profits at year's end.

Glass was loaded on barges from the special wharves built behind the works and shipped up and down the Monongahela, supplying the early settlers with what was once a luxury west of the [[Allegheny Mountains|Alleghenies]], glass windows.