Seventeen years later he moved the business to the location of what would become the Onondaga Pottery Company and eventually Syracuse China.

Popular taste demanded a finer ceramic tableware than the heavy pottery made by these companies.

Onondaga Pottery started producing a heavy earthenware called "Ironstone" but struggle to succeed.

A year later they replaced this with high fired china and a guarantee that the glaze would not crackle or craze - the first time American-made tableware carried such a warranty.

[2] The company was renowned for its fine china designs until 1970 when it limited its production to mostly restaurant dinnerware.

In 1959 the Syracuse China Corp. acquired a controlling interest in Vandesca Pottery, Ltd. of Joliette, Quebec.

The back of each plate also has text indicating it was one of the last "pieces to be made in Syracuse, N.Y." The archives and china collections were donated to the Onondaga Historical Association.

The company gave out membership cards, with the idea that wherever members traveled, they would "turn over" their dinnerware to see if it was Syracuse China; witnesses to this curious behavior would then be treated to the story of the club and thus introduced to the brand name.