Stoneware crocks and pottery made in Zanesville, Ohio since 2005
✅ Made in USA
Where Ohio Stoneware products are made
Zanesville, Ohio
Ohio Stoneware runs three locations in Zanesville: the main office and shipping warehouse at 34 N 3rd Street, retail and manufacturing on Dearborn Street, and large-product manufacturing on Muskingum Avenue. Product listings read “American Made by Ohio Stoneware in Zanesville, Ohio.”
Fired at 2,200°F
The company describes its own kiln cycle: pieces are fired at approximately 2,200 degrees and run through a heating-and-cooling cycle of roughly eighteen hours. The glaze is lead-free and food safe, and the finished ware is microwave, oven and dishwasher safe.
Built from a closing industry
The business was assembled out of what Zanesville left behind — equipment from Robinson Ransbottom Pottery, a building from Zanesville Stoneware, the Buckeye Stoneware assets in 2008, and in 2018 an 1850s building that came with the Hartstone Pottery assets.
Ohio Stoneware makes a clean, unqualified domestic claim on its pottery: individual listings across different product families — the two-gallon preserving crock and the large-dog pet feeder among them — both carry the identical line “American Made by Ohio Stoneware in Zanesville, Ohio,” and the company’s story page states “we promise quality pottery and stoneware products that are all made in the USA by Ohio Stoneware in Zanesville, Ohio.” Two things to keep straight. Non-pottery accessories sold alongside the crocks — stainless steel and plastic spigots, jug corks, crock straps — carry no stated country of origin, so the claim should not be stretched to cover them. And the hand-decorated Hartstone line sold through the same store is a separate acquired brand, decorated in Zanesville but not interchangeable with Ohio Stoneware’s own ware.
The story
Zanesville, Ohio was once the Pottery Capital of the World, and for most of the twentieth century that was not marketing. Clay from the Muskingum valley, cheap gas for the kilns, and a dozen commercial potteries within a few miles of each other. By the early 2000s almost all of it was gone.
Ohio Stoneware was founded in 2005 by two young entrepreneurs with a generational history in retail pottery — Ross and Tiffany Pattison. Their starting capital was largely other people’s closures: they bought equipment from Robinson Ransbottom Pottery and the building from Zanesville Stoneware, and opened with one facility, two non-family employees and about ten items.
The company grew the same way it started, by absorbing what was left. It acquired the Buckeye Stoneware assets in 2008, which brought five more employees. A second location followed in 2015. In 2018 it bought a third building — an 1850s structure that had once housed J.B. Owens Pottery — which came with the Hartstone Pottery assets and a retail storefront.
The catalogue has grown from those first ten items to well over two hundred: preserving crocks in one through ten gallon sizes with matching covers, weight sets and water-seal kits; the Dominion bakeware line; mixing and serving bowls; baking stones; pet feeders; birdbaths and garden ware. The company sells wholesale to retailers across the United States and Canada, runs factory-floor tours, and marked its twentieth anniversary in 2025.
Why they matter
Fermentation crocks are a category where the domestic option nearly vanished. Home fermenting came back into fashion over the last fifteen years, and most of the crocks sold into that revival are imported — which is a strange outcome for a product Americans made by the millions for two centuries.
Ohio Stoneware is what a surviving commercial pottery actually looks like: three buildings in one Ohio town, kilns running eighteen-hour cycles, and a catalogue built on the unglamorous stuff — crocks, bowls, bakeware, dog dishes — rather than art pottery. That is the product mix that keeps a factory employed.
There is also a preservation argument. The company was built out of the equipment, buildings and brands of potteries that closed. Keeping those assets working in Zanesville, rather than letting them be scrapped, is the difference between an industry that ended and one that got smaller.
Featured products
Browse Ohio Stoneware fermentation crocks, covers and weights, bakeware, bowls and pet feeders available now in the Buy American Campaign store.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Ohio Stoneware pottery made?
In Zanesville, Ohio, across three company locations — the main office and shipping warehouse on N 3rd Street, retail and manufacturing on Dearborn Street, and large-product manufacturing on Muskingum Avenue. Product listings state “American Made by Ohio Stoneware in Zanesville, Ohio.”
Are Ohio Stoneware crocks food safe?
Yes. The company states its glaze is lead-free and food safe, and that its ware is microwave, oven and dishwasher safe. The preserving crocks are made for fermenting and are sold with matching covers, weight sets and water-seal kits.
What sizes do the preserving crocks come in?
One, two, three, four, five and ten gallon, with matching covers and weights, plus kegs and churns. Because the pieces are handmade, Ohio Stoneware notes that measurements can vary slightly between individual crocks.
Does Ohio Stoneware have a guarantee?
Yes — a five-year limited guarantee against defects in materials and workmanship.