From Frank Myers' book "The Wood Chemical Industry In The Delaware Valley", he says the plant started up it's ovens on August 17,1898, and was greatly enlarged after 1910. Most of the plant was dismantled in 1924, and parts were used in building a huge,new plant in Glenfield, NY. The Beerston plant continued running on 2 of it's original ovens, with greatly diminished capacity, to sometime prior to 1932. Virtually all plants of this type went out of business between 1920 and WWII because of the development of synthetic chemicals in Germany. At 10:27 PM 2/24/2007, you wrote: > Hi, > Recently I came across a old obituary of my G. Grandfather Marion >R. Cooke. At the time of his death, he was the superintendent of the >Beerston Acetate Plant at Walton, N.Y. He was killed, when his >automobile was struck by a train. The obit does not have a date on it, >but my Dad, who was born in 1918, remembers that he was a young boy, >when the telegraph came, informing them of my G. Grandfather's death. >So, I think that it may have been in the 1920s. > > But, does anybody know when the Plant was in business? > > > >Thanks, > > >Catherine Cooke > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message