Clay Times Back Issues Volume 3 Issue 11 • Jul/Aug 1997 | Page 21

With the establishment of Georgia
by Oglethorpe, Duche’ left Carolina
to find support from the Georgia
government to produce porcelain.
Evidence suggests this occurred, but no
known examples exist. And no known
links between Duche’ and what became
known as Edgefield Stoneware exist.
Carved out of the Old
Ninety-Six District in 1785,
Edgefield was, by land size,
the fifth largest county in
South Carolina. This new
county lay in central South
Carolina, where the Coastal
Plain met the Piedmont, straddling the
ancient beach we now call the Fall
Zone. It was bounded in the east by the
Saluda River and on the wes