The first glass house in Western Virginia was built at Charlestown, now Wellsburg, in 1813 by Isaac Taylor Duvall and Company. It stood on the southeast corner of Fifth and Yankee Streets, where cobalt blue, green, and clear flint glass wares were made. Isaac Duvall died in 1828, and the company was sold in 1838 to Samuel Lowther, Joseph Miller, and George Cotts for $2100.