Museum of American Glass in West Virginia

[2] For most of the twentieth and for a good part of the early twenty-first centuries, Lewis County in central West Virginia had been the home of some thirty glass manufacturers and at one time during the 1940s could boast that it was the largest producer of hand blown stemware in the world.

[4] While advocating this idea in northern West Virginia, his initiative came to the attention of Merle Moore, the Director of the Lewis County Chamber of Commerce.

[5] She invited Dean Six to Weston where, with the help of a grant, they assembled a study group, composed of local, municipal, county, state and glass industry representatives to discuss Six's suggestion.

[13] Later on April 25, 1998, the West Virginia Museum of American Glass, Ltd opened to the public in the former Cain's Drug Store building at the corner of Main and Second Streets in downtown Weston.

Less than ten years later, an agreement was signed in September, 2006, to purchase the former JCPenney's department store complex at 230 Main Avenue.

[14] Spanning the 19th century through the present time, some 18,000 pieces of virtually every type of American glass are on public display with at least that much additional glassware in open storage, available for research and study.