1. Paul R. Mullins, “Historic Pottery Making in Rockingham County, Virginia” (paper presented at a symposium on Ceramics in Virginia, Archaeological Society of Virginia, Virginia Piedmont Community College, Charlottesville, Va., 1988); Paul R. Mullins, “Traditional Pottery Adaptation in the Shenandoah Valley: The Diaries and Business Records of Emanuel Suter” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, Morristown, N.J., 1989); Paul R. Mullins, “The Boundaries of Change: Negotiating Industrialization in the Domestic Pottery Trade” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Richmond, Va., 1991); Paul R. Mullins, “Defining the Boundaries of Change: The Records of an Industrializing Potter,” Text Aided Archaeology (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1992), pp. 179–93; and Kurt C. Russ, “Exploring Western Virginia Potteries,” Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 21 (winter 1995): 98–138. 2. A. H. Rice and John Baer Stoudt, The Shenandoah Pottery (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing, 1929); and H. E. Comstock, The Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 1994). More than thirty-five potters have been identified as working in Strasburg from circa 1820 through 1908; see William E. Wiltshire III, Folk Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975). 3. Similar patterns, though on a much smaller scale, are seen elsewhere in the state where county-level investigations of the industry have been undertaken, namely in Augusta, Rockbridge, Alleghany, and Botetourt Counties and in southwestern Virginia. Augusta County: Jim Hanger, “Pots, Potteries, and Potting in Augusta County, 1800–1870,” Augusta Historical Journal 9 (spring 1973): 4–15. Rockbridge County: Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, “Understanding the Historic Pottery Manufacturing Industry in Rockbridge County, Virginia: Archaeological Excavation at the Firebaugh Pottery (44rb290),” Journal of Mid-Atlantic Archaeology 7 (1991): 155–68; Kurt C. Russ and John M. McDaniel, “Archaeological Excavations at the Rockbridge Pottery (44rb84): A Preliminary Report,” Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia 41, no. 2 (1986): 72–88. Alleghany County: Kurt C. Russ, “The Remarkable Stoneware of George N. Fulton, Circa 1856–1894,” Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2004), pp. 157–78. Botetourt County: Kurt C. Russ, “Making Pottery in Botetourt County, Virginia,” Journal of the Roanoke Historical Society 13, no. 2 (1996): 59–74. Southwestern Virginia: Klell Bayne Knapps, “Traditional Pottery Making in Washington County, Virginia and Sullivan County, Tennessee,” Historic Society of Washington County, Virginia, 2nd ser., no. 10 (1972): 3–16; and Christopher T. Espenshade, “Potters on the Holston: Historic Pottery Production in Washington County, Virginia” (report by Skelly and Loy, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., on file at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, 2002). 4. The interconnectedness of potters and their families and communities is well illustrated in Rockingham County but also characterizes the industry elsewhere in Virginia. Recent research in southwestern Virginia (see Christopher T. Espenshade, “Relatedness and Fluidity among Stoneware Potters of Washington County, Virginia,” Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter [Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 2004], pp. 262–64; and Roderick J. Moore, “Earthenware Potters along the Great Road in Virginia and Tennessee,” Antiques 124 [September 1983]: 528–37) and ongoing research on eastern Virginia potters along the James River (see Robert Hunter, Kurt C. Russ, and Marshall Goodman, “Stoneware of Eastern Virginia,” Antiques 168 [April 2005]: 126–33) reveal a similar pattern. 5. Community preferences for functional wares with appropriate and enduring aesthetic appeal are factors identified as critical to the survival and continuation of the traditional craft industry in Alleghany County, Virginia (Russ, “Remarkable Stoneware of George N. Fulton,” pp. 157, 168, 175–76). 6. Similarly, a map (p. iv) showing the location of the region’s potteries is obviously taken from a historical map of the area. Unfortunately, no figure number or citation as to its origin is provided, and, as a result, the reader is not allowed the opportunity to evaluate the validity of the information contained therein; the absence of a scale is also problematic. Several other figures and images in the essay section are not numbered or referenced. 7. These include research concerning the beginnings of the industry in Rockingham County, including John and Andrew Coffman’s probable apprenticeship to Jacob and Christian Adam in Shenandoah County; cost variation of different forms of earthenware and stoneware through time, which eventually could provide data relevant to understanding socioeconomic aspects; and recording of kiln sites and archaeological testing of others (in conjunction with documentary and genealogical research) that are poorly understood or with whom poorly understood potters were associated (which would at the same time permit assessments of variations in technology utilized at the county’s potteries and how they changed over time). 8. Other examples include the authors’ recognition of a design as resembling decoration on a stove plate (p. 51, no. 60) cast at the Marlboro Furnace in Frederick County, Va.; their identification of the resemblance of the bird on a local vessel to that on wares by Cowden and Wilcox (p. 49, no. 54); and their recognition of the similarities in decoration on a Heatwole vessel to decoration used by Bell (p. 66, no. 98).