Info. from “The Twiggs Times” – The Western Reserve Insulator Club Newsletter from article by Tom Nelson.
Sept. 21,1882, a patent was issued to William M. Wallace for Mode of Making Glass Screw Caps. (Patent for making fruit jars entirely of glass).
February 1884, the glass works project was being quietly worked up.
By March 1884, the glass works project at Cadiz seemed to have fair prospects of success with $5,000 dollars being raised.
In April, a tentative agreement was reached to build a glasshouse in the coming three months. The company purchased a 2-acre plot (where Rite Aid is today) for $675, which was next to a railroad. (Cadiz Branch)
The agreement between three of the glassmen and Cadiz reported to erect a 70 by 50-foot brick building with a 60-foot stack and employing 75 workers.
Cadiz Glass was ready to start on July 22,1884. The packing room is a large building, neatly painted, and even the straw house is a sightly building. An abandoned coal shaft gives plenty of water in the greatest drought. By this time, Cadiz Glass Works had already made a considerable quantity of glassware, mostly glass fruit jars.
Feb. 5, 1885, The Cadiz Glass Co. makes glass jars for oil cans, beer bottles, insulators and a general line of green glassware.
In April of 1886 the Cadiz Glass Co. made shipment of insulators to Vera Cruz, Mexico.
In February 1890, a Warranty Deed transferring the Cadiz Glass Company property to M.J. Brown and W. L. Houser, with a Quit Claim Deed following in March.
April 2, 1896, the Cadiz Glass Works property was noted in the Cadiz Republican as “to be sold at Sheriff’s Sale”.
