As of the census of 2000, there were 13,089 people, 5,261 households, and 3,424 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,010.3 people per square mile (1,161.8/km²).
East Liverpool is located at 40°37′43″N 80°34′9″W (40.628510, -80.569063)[3].
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.5 square miles (11.7 km²), of which, 4.3 square miles (11.3 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (3.97%) is water.
East Liverpool was originally named St. Clair by Thomas Fawcett, one of the earliest land owners, in 1800 after Arthur St. Clair, who at that time was Governor of the Northwest Territory. It was called Fawcettstown for a time by the local residents. It was incorporated as East Liverpool in 1834 when a Liverpool in western Ohio (now defunct) protested the use of its name by this newer eastern town.
The Hall China Company.
James Bennett, an English potter, established the pottery industry in East Liverpool, and it became the community’s leading employer. East Liverpool became known as “The Crockery City.” East Liverpool once produced more than half of the United States’s annual ceramics output. Throughout East Liverpool’s famed ceramics history, there were more than 300 potteries. Of these, just three remain: The Hall China Company, the Homer Laughlin China Company (located across the Ohio River in Newell, West Virginia) and Pioneer Pottery.
Among the most famous of East Liverpool’s ceramics output was the porcelain known as Lotus Ware. Produced by Knowles, Taylor & Knowles in the 1890s, this Moorish- and Persian-influenced artware swept the competition at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. It is generally considered to be the finest porcelain ever produced in the United States. The Museum of Ceramics in downtown East Liverpool has the country’s largest public display of Lotus Ware.
Since the mid-1960s or so, East Liverpool’s pottery industry has steadily declined. This has been due mostly to the fact that pottery workers in less-developed countries—among them China, South Korea and Taiwan–are paid a small fraction of the hourly wage expected by American workers.
In the mid-1990s, the city renovated its downtown district, with Great Depression-era lightposts, a new center of town called Devon’s Diamond, and the reconstruction of the old High School’s clocktower, which is now home of the East Liverpool High School Alumni Association.
East Liverpool is known as “America’s Hometown” and has enjoyed the distinction of being the “Pottery Capital of the World” for the past 150 years.
Clay was discoved in the area in the mid 1800’s and more than 200 pottery factories bloomed across the city. Situated in the heart of the tri-state area, where Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio share the great Ohio River, East Liverpool can be reached by car or Motor Coach in under 40 minutes from Pittsburgh, PA, and just an hour’s drive from Akron, Canton, Younstown, Ohio; Wheeling, WV; Beaver Valley and Washington, PA.
Many visitors travel from across the nation to enjoy the city’s many fine shops and to visit the 40,000 sq. ft. Pottery City Antique Mall.
Be sure to take a break from shopping, and visiting our local museums to enjoy a great dining experience at many of our area restaurants.
Within only 10 minutes of downtown, visitors can enjoy museums, potteries, horse racing, video and table gaming, historic buildings, restored mansions, dining, boating, water skiing, fishing, horseback riding, golf, and miniature golf, sightseeing and camping in several area parks.
East Liverpool can be conveniently reached by travellers by one of the many low cost flights to nearby Pittsburgh Airport (approx. 20 miles).
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