Exploring Cambridge, OH

Friday, Sept 9

Cambridge, OH is, or was, a major glass glass manufacturing town.  Cambridge Glass was established in the early 1900's and became one of the countries premier glass companies.  Boyd glass still manufactures here as does Mosser glass.  We weren't able to find out why this area is so big for glass.  We don't think it was for sand, which doesn't seem to be here.  I did read that one reason was because there was a lot of coal and natural gas which is needed for the process.  There are at least 3 different glass museums in town.  We chose to visit the Cambridge Glass National Museum.  It is very well done and we even had our own private tour guide.  If you were a glass collector you would enjoy this.  Some of the details were a bit much for us and got a little boring but over all we enjoyed the place.  There was some very pretty glass. 

Some of these pieces are very expensive.  Guess I will have to go through some of my mom's glassware before we sell it at a garage sale to see if she has any. 

We did drive over to check out the Hopalong Cassidy museum but the building looked closed and falling apart so we didn't stop. 

We did drive downtown and checked out a farmer's market they had going on but it was late and most of the stuff was gone.  We did pick a local restaurant to have a meal at.  We both decided to have breakfast instead of lunch.  Our meals were good.  I like dining at little local places instead of the big chain restaurants. 

We made it back to the campground and took a little walk around.  It is pretty nice and it is big!  There are a lot of seasonals but they also get a lot of overnighters. 



We leave here on Sunday and head east some more.  We are slowly making our way to Pottsville, PA for the reunion.  I think we have about 3 weeks before we have to be there.  I have made plans for campgrounds along the way.  I don't usually do that this far ahead but lately it seems like every place I have called has been full.  I am surprised by that since all the kids are back in school.  Everyone seems to be camping on the weekends.  I guess they are getting their last times in before the bad weather hits.  It has cooled off a lot and we are getting clouds and some rain.  We are headed towards Hershey, PA and we just heard there is some flooding going on there.  Our campground is OK and we heard the RV show is still scheduled to go on. 

Here are all the pictures I took