Who built the first glass factory in West Virgina?
Isaac Duval built the first West Virginia glass factory in Wellsburg in 1813. The plant, which remained operational until 1842, manufactured flint glass and colored glassware. It was the first glass factory in the Ohio Valley.References:WVGES Geology: History of West Virginia Mineral Industries–SandstoneBrooke County Genealogy: Early Glass Houses of Brooke County”Lamb’s biographical dictionary of the United States, Volume 2;” John Howard Brown; 1900.