Brockway Glass Comes to Rosemount
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In 1960, Brockway Glass Company [music] of Brockway, Pennsylvania, asked the village of Rosemount to rezone 110 acres from agricultural to industrial. Hi, my name is Maureen and I am a Rosemount historian. The company built a wear shed along with a furnace [music] building with two impressive smoke stacks. A nine-hole golf course, softball field, and trap [music] shooting range were also built for employees use. By 1961, the plant was producing up to 1 million glass bottles a day using 300 tons of raw sand. By 1972, Rosemount was the second largest producers [music] of clear and amber glass. The following year, they were one of the first in the country to start glass recycling. Brockway Glass closed January 1st, [music] 1985, displacing 450 employees. October of [music] 2004 was the end of the towering smoke stacks. The concrete was recycled and was used in the driveways of the new houses in the Harmony [music] Village development. What happens today is tomorrow's history.