About East Liverpool

Nestled in the verdant hills of the Ohio River Valley, where Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia meet, is the City of East Liverpool. At East Liverpool's border with Pennsylvania, a Point of Beginning marker denotes the first survey stake or geographer's line for plotting the seven ranges of the Northwest Territory.

On July 1, 1800 Thomas Fawcett purchased approximately 1100 acres and settled his family in what is now known as East Liverpool. News of the area's rich deposits of clay and coal drew the interest and fired the imagination of James Bennett, an English migrant and skilled potter, making his way up the Ohio River in 1839. Bennett constructed a small single-kiln pottery on the bank of the Ohio River in East Liverpool thus establishing the city's first pottery. Successfully, manufacturing and marketing his product, Bennett initiated an immigration of thousands of skilled English potters that not only molded an industry but also grew to shape a town of unique heritage and character that continues to captivate legions of visitors and pottery collectors generations later.

Today, East Liverpool offers visitors pottery tours and outlets at Hall China Company and Homer Laughlin China Company , the Museum of Ceramics, antiques, lodging, specialty shops, gaming at Mountaineer Race Track & Resort and captivating scenery year round.

For more information contact the East Liverpool Area Chamber of Commerce at 330-385-0845, e-mail us office@elchamber.com, or visit the East Liverpool Tourism website.