CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: KAOLIN
Company: California Brick and Pottery Company
Location: Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, CA
Years: 1905-1909.
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand name KAOLIN impressed on the face.
Equipment: 5 oil-fired downdraft round kilns.
Comments: Kaolin clay probably came from the Weise clay pit near Glen Ellen.
Source: Brick and Clay Record, July 29, 1903, p. 38; Bradley, W.W. Mines and Mineral Resources of Portions of
California, Part 2: The Counties of Colusa,
Glenn, Lake, Marin, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Yolo. California State Mining Bureau 14th Report of the
State Mineralogist, 1916, p. 316-317; Fitzsimmons, Jeannie. Showcase Gallery, Glen Ellen, personal communications, 2008;
Glotzbach, Bob, ed. Childhood Memories of Glen Ellen. Glen Ellen, 1992.
View of the abandoned kilns of the California Brick and Pottery Company, c. 1914.
From Bradley, 1916.
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