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BRICKS,
BRICKYARDS
& Brick Collecting
in Texas
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Thurber
brick
Courtesy of TXDoT |
- 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 ...
- Thurber,
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
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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