BRICKS, BRICKYARDS
& Brick Collecting
in Texas

• 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 ....