Products Made in West Virginia

West Virginia's industry was built on coal, salt, glass, steel and clay. Wheeling was a nail and iron town in the 1800s. The Kanawha Valley around Charleston produced salt and, later, chemicals. Glass factories spread through the state, using local sand and natural gas, and potteries lined the Ohio River in the northern panhandle. Coal mining dominated the southern counties for more than a century. Fiesta dinnerware is still made at the former Homer Laughlin pottery in Newell, on the Ohio River, and its plates, bowls and mugs are labeled made in the USA. Warwood Tool hand-forges axes, mattocks and bars from American steel in Wheeling. Mountaineer Brand makes beard and body care in Martinsburg, where it was founded in 2013.