White and Company's Goose Lake Tile Works

White and Company's Goose Lake Tile Works
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The site of the tile works in 2010
Location	5010 N. Jugtown Rd., Morris, Illinois
Coordinates	41°20′44″N 88°19′02″W / 41.34556°N 88.31722°WCoordinates: 41°20′44″N 88°19′02″W / 41.34556°N 88.31722°W
Area	2.7 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1855
NRHP Reference #	98000976[1]
Added to NRHP	August 6, 1998

White and Company's Goose Lake Tile Works is an archaeological site located at 5010 N. Jugtown Rd. in the Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area, near Morris, Illinois. The site, as well as the nearby stoneware manufactury site, was part of a large White and Company plant used to manufacture stoneware and tile. The tile works, which operated from 1855 until 1865, was one of the earliest attempts at large-scale drainage tile production in Illinois. White and Company chose the site due to the abundance of clay around Goose Lake, which it used in its products. Due to the large number of workers employed by the company, a town called Jugtown was settled nearby; the town reached a population of 114 by 1860. The tile works site now mainly consists of waste products from tile production, including tile fragments and kiln furniture.^[2]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1998.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Mansberger, Floyd; Mark Benson (September 25, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: White and Company's Goose Lake Tile Works" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 12, 2013.