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The 12 135-foot-tall smokestacks of the former Libbey-Owens-Ford plant in Charleston were imploded
In 1916, Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass of Toledo, Ohio, built its first plant at 57th Street and MacCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City, which would soon became part of Charleston. The first six furnace units went into production the following year. By 1923,...
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