graniteware

…base for the production of graniteware (enameled ironware), and the city was founded four years later. Although graniteware gave the city its name, the product is no longer manufactured there. Steel founding began in Granite City in 1894 and is the basis of the economy. The manufacture of automotive parts…

An ironstone china called graniteware, or white granite, was a standard of American potteries from about 1860 to 1900.