CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: LIVERMORE
Company: Livermore Fire Brick Company (1910-1918)
Location: Livermore, Alameda County, CA
Years: 1910-1918
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand 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: For further details about this company, see
Livermore Fire Brick Company, 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 Co., Livermore, CA.
From Livermore Fire Brick Co., Fire Brick, product catalog, 1911.
Beehive kiln of the Livermore Fire Brick Co., Livermore, CA.
From Livermore Fire Brick Co., Fire Brick, product catalog, 1911.
Plant of the Livermore Fire Brick Co., Livermore, CA.
From Livermore Fire Brick Co., Fire Brick, product catalog, 1911.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.