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Texas
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BRICKS,
BRICKYARDS
& Brick Collecting
in Texas |
Thurber brick
Courtesy of TXDoT |
Indian
Jim by Mike Cox
("Texas Tales" Column) 2-13-12
Barely
50 years after the U.S. Cavalry drove the last hostile Indians out of the Panhandle
an Indian from New York made page-one news in Pampa and across the nation. Thurber
Brick by Mike Cox
("Texas Tales" Column) 5-20-10Thurber,
Texas - Texas' Premier Ghost Town
A brick factory was added to the mining
operations since they had the material, the fuel, and the railroad to ship the
end product. Tile was manufactured as well, but it was the thick, heavy Thurber
paving brick that paid the bills....The
Butler Brick Company (From "Splash Across Texas" by Chandra Moira
Beal)
The Butler Brick Company was founded by Michael Butler in 1873 when
he came from Limerick, Ireland to join his brother Patrick in Austin. The first
plant ...
The
Coleman Brick Plant - Industrial Ghost Town in the City
The plant was
abandoned. The clay mountain still towers over the skeletons of the buildings,
but it doesn't tower like it used to. ...
Brick
Collecting, Are You at Risk?
So many bricks have town names pressed into
them. Abilene, Corsicana, D'Hanis, Elgin, Ferris, Gonzales, Groesbeck, Lampasas,
Marlin, Pittsburg, Quannah, Rusk, and Tyler, just to mention a few. ...
Easy
to be Hard - Milton Schiller, Brick Detective
Adventures in brick collecting
Malakoff,
Texas
Today efforts are underway to celebrate Malakoff's (and perhaps
the rest of the state's) brick manufacturing heritage, through a display and perhaps
even the formation of a Malakoff Brick Museum....
The
Courthouse, Schools and Brick-making in Alpine, Texas by Tommy R. Woodward
It is said that the contractors burned their own bricks for the building of the
Brewster County Courthouse .... |
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