Here in a quarter mile radius thrived a village of 400 people. Brickton had two stores, a two-room school, postoffice, railroad depot, sawmill, three boarding houses and five brick yards which manufactured twenty-million bricks annually. The yards . . . — — Map (db m236922) HM
You are standing at the center of the town of Brickton, which today is a ghost town. However, between 1887 and 1927 Brickton was a hub of quality brickmaking in the Midwest.
This is the only known photo of the center of Brickton, taken . . . — — Map (db m236997) HM
PICTURED: William Lisky and Marion Shrade in front and Herman Riebe and Adolph Minks above on the brick pile. Minks later said 1910 was a "good, hot dry summer – good for brickmaking".
This 1910 photo shows four men stacking . . . — — Map (db m237119) HM
