A wonderful story about Sylvania and Emporium.
Several members of my family worked at Sylvania. My mother worked there back when it was Girls Town. I'd say many of us that live here had a family member or relative that at one time was employed by Sylvania.
Preservation Backstory: Emporium’s Sylvania Corporation Marker
July 14, 2021 by Andrea L. MacDonald
The Historical Marker Program is one of the PHMC’s most popular public history programs, and the recently approved nominations prove these aluminum markers dotting our roads and city sidewalks are more than just “history on a stick.” The words cast into markers and the marker topics have deep meaning to many Pennsylvanians.
I have been honored to represent the PHMC at a few historical marker dedications over the years, but until this year, there has not been a marker connected to my story until the dedication of Sylvania Electric Products in Emporium, Cameron County. At the dedication ceremony for the Sylvania marker, I learned the military and global significance of this industry, which was not based in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, but rather grew its roots in the woods of Pennsylvania.
Sylvania’s Beginnings
The name Sylvania is of French, Latin origins, which means it has more than one root, woods, or forest. This Sylvania story began in 1907 when a new factory was constructed in Emporium to produce carbon-filament lamps. The site for the new factory is where the investors’ lumber mill had been located. Initially, the company was known as the Novelty Incandescent Lamp Co. and production of miniature specialty and decorative lamps were produced by a workforce of twelve women and two men. More on “girls town” later.
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