Whitney Glassworks
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Glassboro, New Jersey, USA Closed Because that is why the town is called GLASSboro. Kristin Q. Long before it was a college town, Glassboro was a glass town. In 1779 German immigrant Solomon Stanger purchased 200 acres to establish a factory for the manufacture of glass. Known as the “Glass Works in the Woods” a […]