ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON POINT PLEASANT POTTERY PIPES Several articles in the Ohio Archaeo-

logist have called attention to the manu-facture of reed stem clay tobacco pipes at Point Pleasant, Ohio (Shriver 1986, 1987; Holzapfel 1993). The present article is intended to provide additional informa-tion as well as correct a number of errors in these articles and other accounts in the literature. As documented by Thomas and Burnett (1971) and Murphy (1985), there have actually been three distinct potteries producing clay tobacco pipes at Point Pleasant. The best known of these is the Cornwall Kirkpatrick-Nathan Davis-Peterson Brothers factory, which stood. on the south bank of Big Indian Creek near the U.S. Route 52 highway bridge. This pottery was in production from ca. 1838 to ca. 1887. Although a pottery op-erated at this site by William P. Lakin stood here from ca. 1838 until his death in 1843, it is considered unlikely that pipe production occurred prior to operation of the pottery by Cornwall Kirkpatrick (1814-1890), which began in 1849. (Kirkpatrick had earlier operated a yellow ware pottery in Covington, Kentucky, and very likely produced a variety of yellowware reed stem pipes that have been found in the Cincinnati area before moving to Point Pleasant; as Kirkpatrick operated a pot-tery in Cincinnati subsequent to his oper-ations at Point Pleasant, he may well have produced pipes there, as well.) It is cer-tainly an exaggeration to state that the Point Pleasant pipes have been buried fo