1. H. E. Comstock, The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1994). 2. During his career, Baecher also spelled his name Packer, Bacher, and Backer. 3. Comstock, The Pottery of the Sehnandoah Valley, p. 164. 4. Alvin H. Rice and John Baer Stoudt, The Shenandoah Pottery (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1929), p. 88. 5. Dr. Gene Comstock, Robert Jolley of the Winchester Regional Preservation Office of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR), and David Hazzard of the Threatened Sites Program (VDHR) assisted Skelly and Loy, Inc. in the excavation. Robert Jolley has been conducting research concerning the longevity of the earthenware tradition in Frederick County, Virginia, and has noted this apparent devolution in much of the late nineteenth-century earthenware. 6. Christopher T. Espenshade and Linda Kennedy, “Skilled Potters, Mundane Pots: Preliminary Archaeological Testing of the Anthony Baecher Pottery Shop (44FK550), Frederick County, Virginia, 2002.” Report for the Threatened Sites Program, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Va.