Sandwich Glass Museum

Sandwich, MA

Sandwich, MA is the oldest town on Cape Cod, first settled in 1637 and incorporated in 1639.  The history of Sandwich is preserved by the Sandwich Historical Society and it's Glass Museum.  Glass was first made here in 1825 and was a major industry in this town for close to 100 years.  The original Boston and Sandwich Glass Co was founded here by Deming  Jarvis in 1825 and company prospered until 1888.  Jarvis improved the processes used for making pressed glass, which could be made cheaper than hand blown glass.  After 1888, others tried to rekindle the glass industry in Sandwich but ultimately were not successful.  Today, nothing remains of the glass factories which played such an important part in the history of Sandwich.