Oregon Pottery Company

Oregon Pottery Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryPottery manufacturing
Predecessor
  • Buena Vista Pottery Works
  • Smith and Company Pottery
Founded1866; 158 years ago (1866) in Buena Vista, Oregon
FounderFreeman Smith
Amedee Smith
Freeman Smith, Jr.
Defunct1911
SuccessorWestern Clay Manufacturing Company

Oregon Pottery Company was established in the United States at Buena Vista, Oregon, in 1866. The largest pottery business on the West Coast of the United States at the time, it produced stoneware jars, jugs, and sewer pipe between 1866 and 1897 in Buena Vista and Portland, Oregon.