Stahl's Pottery Preservation Society

Slipware plate made at Stahl's Pottery on Oct. 31, 1939. The Stahl's Pottery Preservation Society, Inc. was founded in 1987 as a result of the sale in auction of the Pottery estate by the heirs of its last owner, Russell Stahl. Having bought the property, the Society set as it's main goal the preservation of the heritage and integrity of the pottery and one of very few bee-hive wood-fired kilns in the country.

Formed mainly of descendants of Thomas and Isaac Stahl, who operated the pottery at its current location (their father, Charles Stahl, had founded Stahl's Pottery at a neaby site also in Powder Valley), the Society's hopes are to restore the property and to someday have a working potter at the site, not for commercial reasons, but to maintain the Stahl Pottery tradition. Another goal of the Preservation Society is to have experts determine the safety of the actual kiln in hopes that someday it will again be operational.

Tax deductable contributions can be forwarded to the Stahl Pottery Preservation Society, c/o Nadine Schmoyer, 6064 Indian Creek Road, Zionsville, PA 18092.