Set of 5 dinner plates- Taylor Smith & Taylor plates 5411

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Set of 5 dinner plates, Taylor Smith & Taylor plates 5411
Per Laurel Hollow Park about history of the mark:
"The story of the Taylor, Smith & Taylor Company is the story of two brothers, William L. and Charles A Smith, the village of Chester, West Virginia and the suspension bridge connecting the pottery town of East Liverpool, Ohio with Chester. It is impossible to separate one from the other.
The two brothers were originally from Wellsville, Ohio, and came to East Liverpool early in their lives. William L. Smith became the owner of a large lumber yard, a member of the Chester Land Company and the East Liverpool Bridge Company.
In 1895 the town of Chester was laid out and work was started on the suspension bridge to be built across the Ohio river. The bridge was opened to the public on January of 1897 and immediately industrial enterprises became interested in obtaining sites in the new town. A rolling mill was built in Chester, to be followed by the erection of the Edwin M. Knowles China company and several smaller plants.
The Smith brothers believed there was room, competitively speaking, for another pottery in the new village. They interested a number of potters and influential men from East Liverpool in the proposition and accordingly on October 10, the first meeting was held in the office of that famous pottery, the Knowles, Taylor & Knowles company, the purpose was to draw plans for the incorporation of a new pottery firm".