Niloak Pottery

Eagle was founded by Charles Dean Hyten and his brothers in the 1890s and was the largest pottery-ware business in the Benton area by 1904.

In 1909, Arthur Dovey joined Eagle to help Hyten, by then sole owner of the company, develop an operation for the manufacture of art pottery.

The salient feature of Niloak was its "Mission Swirl," developed by Hyten.

Niloak's Mission Swirl was usually of red, tan, blue and brown in a counter-clockwise direction.

During the Depression years, Eagle manufactured a line of Niloak called "Hywood".