CALIFORNIA BRICKS

DICKEY STAR

Brand name: DICKEY STAR

Company: W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co., Plant 19

Location: Livermore, Alameda County, CA

Years: 1926-1936

Type: Fire brick

Description: Brand name and company name impressed into face.

Equipment: Storage sheds, dry-pan grinding machines, bucket elevator, screens, Bonnet single-screw auger, stiff-mud extruder, automatic wire cutters, two stamping machines, 10 70-ft. long drying tunnels, 6 round 10 burner gas-fired 26-ft. down-draft kiln, 2 15-ft. muffle kiln, 3 rectangular stacks 50 ft. high

Deposit: Fire clay from Calaveras and Amador counties. Surficial clay deposit on property.

Comments: Also made fire clay refractories and sewer brick. This plant was established in 1910 by the Livermore Fire Brick Company. For further details about this company, see W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, Plant No. 19, Livermore.

Source: California Division of Mines and Geology v. 46, no. 2, 1950; Mosier, Dan, History of Brickmaking in the Livermore Valley, Livermore Heritage Guild, February 1983.

Plant of the Livermore Fire Brick Works, Livermore, CA.
From Oakland Tribune Annual Year Book, 1923.

Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.