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 | | Athens Tile and Pottery Company of Athens, Texas, a pottery and clay products manufacturer, was founded in February 1885 by McKendree Miller, who was born in Illinois and had worked for a Louisiana, Missouri, pottery before moving to Texas in 1884. |
 | | By locating at Athens, where substantial amounts of clay were available for manufacturing, the business could provide its own raw materials, interrupted only when rain filled the clay pits. |
 | | Later it operated a retail store at Athens and diversified into the manufacture of syrup jugs, churns, jars, vases, cups, and mugs. |
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