CALIFORNIA BRICKS

HANCOCK

Donated by Marcia Miller, Dakeno Demolition, Inc.

Brand name: HANCOCK

Company: Hancock Brick Company

Location: Plant was located at 1330 Lemon St., Riverside, and by 1956, at 21516 Main St. Highgrove, CA.

Years: 1899-1960s

Type: Common brick

Description: Brand name in block letters raised in a deep rectangular frog in the face.

Equipment: Potts soft mud machine, later stiff mud machine, gas-fired field kilns.

Capacity: 43,000 daily.

Deposit: 5 feet thick loam in 20-foot bank, mined by steam shovel.

Comments: C.P. Hancock and Sons, owners.

Source: Brick and Clay Record July 1899, p. 34; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 38, 1906; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928.

For more information see under Brickmakers the Hancock Brick Company.

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