The story of a glass company named after the town of Fostoria, Ohio, is told almost 300 miles away in Moundsville, West Virginia. The company was founded in 1887 near the town of Fostoria, Ohio, to take advantage of a newly discovered natural gas field. But after just four years, the gas was nearly tapped out, and the company had to look for a new location to get their gas. In 1891, the company moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where there was an abundance of gas and coal. Fostoria would…
