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Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials.Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [1] although the company's physical location has always been in Texas.
In 1912 the firm acquired the Austin Brick Company, and in 1965 it acquired its chief competitor, Elgin Standard Brick Company. The Elgin Butler company supplied bricks for the Texas State Capitol , 80 percent of the brick structures at the University of Texas at Austin , face brick and fire brick for fireplaces in many Austin residences, and ...
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The Harbison-Walker Refractories Company is a national historic district and historic refractory brick manufacturing complex which is located in Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It originated as the Star Firebrick Company on March 7, 1865, with Articles of Association by a group of Pittsburgh and Allegheny residents.
Sayre and Fisher Brick Company was established in 1850 by James R. Sayre, Jr., and Peter Fisher, [4] [5] and later became one of the USA's leading manufacturers of building brick, fire brick, and enamel brick. In 1876 the area around the village then known as Wood's Landing was renamed Sayreville, after the company's co-founder.
The Remillard brothers and members of their family were successful owners of brick manufacturing plants in Oakland and San Francisco, California from the 1860s to the mid-1900s. The three brothers who founded the brick making company, and started the Remillard fortune, immigrated from St. Valentin (near Napierville ), Quebec to California ...
Hood moved to the Atlanta area in 1904 and soon became involved in the brick manufacturing industry. Hood was appalled by the widespread use of convict leasing in Georgia's industries, and as early as 1905, signed his name on advertisements for bricks that encouraged customers to "buy free labor."